Gifts of the Season: Special Edition at Africana Heritage

The following announcement was written by the USF Africana Heritage Project:

The USF Africana Heritage Project invites readers to enjoy the special edition "Gifts of the Season," where more than thirty authors, musicians and filmmakers share excerpts of their work as special holiday gifts to our readers. You may enjoy these special gifts by visiting http://www.africanaheritage.com/AfricanaGiftsoftheSeason.asp.

Some highlights of the edition include:

• Archbishop Desmond Tutu shares a message of peace for the holidays
• Legendary reggae group Morgan Heritage share their song "Freedom" in its entirety
• Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shares an excerpt of his book The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country
• Gloria Wade-Gayles shares selections from her books Pushed Back to Strength, Father Songs and My Soul is a Witness.

Special topics within the "Gifts of the Season" edition are:

• Peace on Earth
• African American Families
• African American History
• African Vices/African Roots
• African/Native American Heritage
• Biographies
• Creole Identities
• Literature and Folklore
• Books for Young Readers
• Genealogy and Oral History
• Teachers' Resources

The Africana Heritage Project is an all-volunteer project sponsored by the Africana Studies department at the University of South Florida, dedicated to African American genealogy and history. Our research mission is to rediscover records that document the names and slaves of slaves, freedpersons and their descendants, and share those records on our free Internet site at http://www.africanaheritage.com. Our searchable database contains more than 4,000 images and transciptions of original historical documents which are useful for researching African American heritage.

The USF Africana Heritage Project exists to serve the research community and to highlight the importance of rediscovering, understanding and preserving African American heritage. Access to the Africana Heritage website is, and always will be, 100% free.

Below is a complete list of excerpts within the special "Gifts of the Season" edition:

PEACE ON EARTH:

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time

Morgan Heritage:
Song "Freedom," a beautiful and simple message of peace and freedom for all

EXCERPTS:

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country

Gloria Wade-Gayles
Pushed Back to Strength: A Black Woman’s Journey Home
Father Songs: Testimonies by African-American Sons and Daughters
My Soul is A Witness: African American Women's Spirituality

AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES:

Charles Joyner
Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community

Leslie A. Schwalm
A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina

Edward Ball
Slaves in the Family

Daryl Cumber Dance
The Lineage of Abraham: The Biography of a Free Black Family in Charles City, VA
From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore

Howard L. Sack and Judith Rose Sacks
Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem

AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY:

Shawn A. Bivens
Mobile, Alabama's People of Color: A Tricentennial History, 1702-2002

Matthew C. Whitaker
Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West

Vivian Owens
The Mount Dorans: African American History Notes of a Florida Town

Marilyn Halter
Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965

AFRICAN VOICES/AFRICAN ROOTS:

Betty M. Kuyk
African Voices in the African American Heritage

Nick Lindsay
And I'm Glad: An Oral History of Edisto Island

African/Native American:

Larry Eugene Rivers
Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation

Canter Brown, Jr.
Tales of Angola: Free Blacks, Red Stick Creeks, and International Intrigue in Spanish Southwest Florida, 1812-1821. From Go Sound the Trumpet: Selections in Florida's African American History

Rosalyn Howard
Black Seminoles in the Bahamas

BIOGRAPHIES:

Deborah G. Plant
Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston

Michele Valerie Ronnick
The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship

Kari J. Winter
The Blind African Slave or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace, As Told to Benjamin F. Prentiss, Esq.

Mary Kaplan
Simon Carter Fuller: Where My Caravan Has Rested

CREOLE IDENTITIES:

Susan D. Greenbaum
More Than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa

J. Plunky Branch
Film: Under the Radar: A Survey of Afro-Cuban Music

BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS:

Vivian Owens
How Oswa Came to Own All Music
I Met A Great Lady
I Met a Great Man
Nadanda the Wordmaker
The Rosebush Witch

GENEALOGY AND ORAL HISTORY:

Donald A. Ritchie
Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide

LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE:

Howard W. Odum
Rainbow Round My Shoulder: The Blue Trail of Black Ulysses

RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS:

Paul Pedersen
110 Experiences for Multicultural Learning

H. Roy Kaplan
Failing Grades: How Schools Breed Frustration, Anger, and Violence, and How to Prevent It

Listening Between the Lines, Inc.
Race With History: Between Civil War and Civil Rights

Please enjoy these special holiday gifts. The USF Africana Heritage Project is deeply grateful for the generosity of the authors, musicians and filmmakers who have shared these special excerpts.

Happy Holidays from the Crew at Africana!