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moongchi

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Which activity did the ancient San people of Africa believe would connect them with the spirits in nature by activating their personal energy called num and putting them in a trance state?
 
  a) dancing, with the guidance of a shaman
  b) chanting in large groups
  c) entering a cave
  d) devouring giraffe meat

Question 2

What specific motifs in Kerry James Marshall's Many Mansions refer to the African-American experience?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: a

Answer to Question 2

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. It depicts African-American men gardening, inspired by the artist's observation that many American housing projects have the word garden in their names. An inscription in the painting refers to a specific building on Chicago's South Side.
2. The African-American men are gardening in shirts with ties, an ironic comment on the impossibility of transforming this urban place into a garden and a contradiction of the false negative image of the African-American male.
3. A ribbon is inscribed In my mother's house there are many mansions, adapting the passage from the Gospel of John (In my father's house. . . .) to refer to the matriarchal structure of urban African-American culture.
4. Easter baskets embody hope and also project crass commercialism.



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