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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Amalia Amaki
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Amalia Amaki.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (12 video files (5 hr., 29 min., 15 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Art history professor, curator, and mixed media artist Amalia Amaki was born Linda Faye Peeks on July 8, 1949 in Atlanta, Georgia to Mary Lee and Norman Peeks, a former musician with the Deep South Boys of Macon, Georgia. Her father gave up his music career to support his six daughters. Amaki graduated from Georgia State University in 1971 with her B.A. degree in journalism and psychology. In 1974, she changed her name while pursuing her B.A. degree in photography and art history from the University of Mexico. Amaki earned her M.A. degree in 1980 in modern European and American art and a Ph.D. in twentieth century American art and culture from Emory University. She taught at universities around north Georgia before becoming curator of the Paul R. Jones Collection of Art and assistant professor of art in the Art History and Black Studies Departments at the University of Delaware in 2001.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Amalia Amaki
Amalia Amaki
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Performers
Evelyn Pounds, interviewer.
Denise Gines, interviewer.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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