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A multimedia portrait of four famed utopian sites celebrating a Black, spiritual America by Cauleen Smith. This book documents an emotional axis by which to navigate four distinct universes:

• Alice Coltrane and her Sai Anantam ashram

• A 1966 photoshoot by Bill Ray at Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in Los Angeles

• Noah Purifoy and his desert assemblages in Joshua Tree

• Black spiritualist Rebecca Cox Jackson and her Shaker community in 19th-century Philadelphia

Softcover, 82 pages.