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The Paul R. Jones Collection is one of the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive holdings of African American art in the world. This book provides a resource for the study of the works included in the Jones collection, the artists who created them, as well as the social and historical contexts that engendered them.

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"""Mr. Jones's collection of fifteen hundred plus art works is one of the world's largest private collections of African American art.""-Homes of Color"""

Mr. Jones's collection of fifteen hundred plus art works is one of the world's largest private collections of African American art. -Homes of Color

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Amalia K. Amaki is the curator of the Paul R. Jones Collection and an assistant professor of art and Black American studies at the University of Delaware. She is currently writing three books: Freedom Lights the Way: A History of All-Black Shows in America, Posed Pictures: Multiple Readings in the Photographs of Prentice Herman Polk, and Monkeys, Myth, and Mime: The Mature Works of Hale Aspacio Woodruff.

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