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This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.

Flash of the Spirit African and AfroAmerican Art

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    A Paperback by Robert Farris Thompson

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Random House USA Inc
      Published 8 December 1984
      ISBN-13 9780394723693
      978-0394723693
      ISBN-10 0394723694

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      Book Synopsis
      This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.

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