"For more than three decades, Amalia Amaki has garnered critical acclaim for works that examine the beauty, music, experience, and contributions of African Americans. This volume brings together her photographs, quilts, souvenir fans, and mixed-media works. Incorporating fabric, beads, pearls, buttons, paint, glitter, and photographs with cultural symbols and visual puns, Amaki challenges and reconfigures American history in original and ..."
"Tuskegee, Alabama, is associated with Tuskegee University, the Tuskegee Airmen, Booker T. Washington, and George Washington Carver. Named after the Taskigi, it is the site of the first law school in Alabama and had local schools long before there was a public school system. Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers (now Tuskegee University) was pivotal to the city being a beacon of African American achievement for a century. The birth ..."
Tuscaloosa (Images of Modern America) by Dr AmaliaK. Amaki, Priscilla N. Davis Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2015 by Arcadia Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4671-1436-3, ISBN: 1-4671-1436-7
"In the 1960s, Tuscaloosa drew national attention when the University of Alabama was fully integrated. The decade also marked the arrival of Paul "Bear" Bryant as head coach of Alabama's football team and the majority of Frank Anthony Rose's tenure as president--a period characterized by race mediation and increases in enrollment, assets, and academic standards. For the next 50 years, sports, education, cultural and recreational opportun ..."
A Century of African American Art The Paul R. Jones Collection by AmaliaK. Amaki Hardcover, 259 Pages, Published 2004 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3456-5, ISBN: 0-8135-3456-9
"The Paul R. Jones Collection is one of the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive holdings of African American art in the world. Jones, who was named by Art and Antiques as one of the top one hundredcollectors in the country, began buying paintings, prints, photographs, and sculpture four decades ago and has now amassed over fifteen hundred works, many of them by well-known artists. Among the sixty-six represented in A Century of Afri ..."
"This gathering of sixty images, along with the essays that frame them, gives us a new way to think about the too often troubled status of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The bell in the clock tower at Atlanta's Morris Brown College bears an inscription about the ideal of educational access, that it be "without regard to sex, race, or color." Yet most of the Morris Brown campus has lain silent for more than a decade ..."
A Century of African American Art(Updated) The Paul R. Jones Collection by AmaliaK. Amaki Paperback, 259 Pages, Published 2004 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3457-2, ISBN: 0-8135-3457-7
""Paul Jones is a passionate collector with a very good eye. He [has] sought out very good examples of excellent artists who have played prominent roles in American art."—Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Chief Curator, Smithsonian American Art MuseumThe Paul R. Jones Collection is one of the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive holdings of African American art in the world. Jones, who was named by Art and Antiques as one of the top one hundred ..."
American Art Collecting and Connoisseurship by Stephen M. Sessler, Elizabeth Broun Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2020 by Merrell Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-85894-682-5, ISBN: 1-85894-682-4
"For the serious collector and connoisseur of the field of American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this series of essays will be invaluable. Twenty-eight writers, each of them highly experienced and an acknowledged expert in their field, examine every aspect of the subject and contribute illuminating and often thought-provoking examinations of a wide variety of topics. The book is divided into three sections. Part I, The ..."