"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 ..."
"As the debut volume in the highly anticipated David C. Driskell Series of African American Art, Charles White sets a remarkable standard for the other volumes to follow. Filled with drawings and paintings - many of which have never been published before - and scholarly text by Andrea D. Barnwell, this monograph encapsulates the spirit, vision, and extraordinary brilliance of White's powerful art. Barnwell discusses White's regard as an ..."
"Destined to become a seasonal classic, "The Forgotten Man of Christmas," is the amazing story of the adopted father of Jesus -- the man who stands in the shadows of Mary and the Babe, the shepherds and the Magi, and host of angels. Most of us have favorite Christmas holiday stories that have come down from other family members. "The Forgotten Man of Christmas" is the type of story that will grab readers and give them a new perspective ..."