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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: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    Publication Date: 8/12/1984 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780394723693, 978-0394723693
    ISBN10: 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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