African American Holiday Gift Shopping

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Gifts that reflect African American history and culture - books, music and more - plus crafts, activities, recipes for Kwanzaa and the holiday season

Looking for gifts that reflect you culturally? 

The Black Holiday Gifts Guide is still available and contains loads of culturally relevant gifts as well as articles, recipes and more.

Compiled by Zhana, Editor of the More Black Success free ebooks, The Black Holiday Gifts Guide contains loads of gift ideas - books, music, electronics - plus crafts, recipes and more. Plus book reviews.

See also: Christmas and Kwanzaa Treats, in the Resources section, below.

Click here to download your copy now.

Click here to read an article about Kwanzaa. Celebrating this festival is an important way for people of African heritage to boost our self-esteem and self-love.

Click here for Kwanzaa events listings.

In the UK, visit Black Gifts UK for books, music and more - Dizzee Rascal, Tinchy Stryder, Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke, Michael Jackson, plus reggae, lovers' rock and more. 

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Get the Black Holiday Gifts Guide

Free download. Guide to books, music, online and offline activities for children, and more.

Published last year, the Black Holiday Gifts Guide contains loads of suggestions of culturally relevant gifts.

Click here to download your free copy now.

The African American Holiday Gifts Guide is a living example of Ujamaa - Co-operative Economics. Order the best holiday gifts for your loved ones and support Black-owned businesses at the same time. 

We have loads of great gift ideas for all the family:

* Books for young children, older children, biographies
* Books about Black history and Black achievers
* Books about Kwanzaa
* Music - CDs, DVDs and mp3 downloads
* Toys, games and activities

As well as articles, ideas for free online family fun, and lots more.

Get the latest electronics.

Looking for Kwanzaa crafts you can make? Activities you can share with the children?

How about African Christmas recipes?

Click here to download your free copy now.

Culturally Relevant Gifts

How to Black people shop for gifts?

We want to choose gifts he, she and they will love.

We want high-quality gifts which will arrive well in time for the big day.

We want to keep within a budget (yeah, right).

We want to avoid leaving everything to the last minute.

We may shop till we drop, in which case we will need some pampering.

On top of these considerations, African American people often want to find gifts which are culturally relevant for us and our children.

We expect to find toys, games, books and music that reflect our experience in positive ways.

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Positive Images

A recent (2005) film entitled Black Doll/White Doll showed that, even now, in the 21st century, Black children as young as three or four preferred a white doll to one which resembled them. They said the white doll was "prettier".

So there is still a need for positive cultural reinforcement to build African American children's self-esteem and confidence.

Black parents need to find gifts this holiday season which will help their children love, value and appreciate themselves and those who look like them.

Christmas and Kwanzaa provide excellent opportunities for this kind of positive cultural reinforcement. And there is a huge range of products available.

But the children won't have all the fun! The 2009 Black holiday gifts guide will feature gifts for him and for her, along with electronic games, board games, puzzles, posters and books for children and adults alike.

For more great gift ideas, see Celebrating the Legend That Is Motown.

Click here to read about a video about Celebrating Kwanzaa with Maya Angelou. To watch a trailer for the video, see "The Black Candle", below.

Kwanzaa Video

In this beautiful video, a mother explains the meaning of Kwanzaa to her daughter. The video also explains the meanings of the Nguzo Saba.

Click here to watch more videos about children and Kwanzaa.
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The Black Candle

Trailer for a Film about Kwanzaa

In this video, narrated by Maya Angelou, people explain what Kwanzaa means to them in their lives.

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Supporting Black Businesses and the Black Community

Co-operative Economics, or Ujamaa, is one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa. It is also the basis on which the African American Holiday Gifts Guide is published.

To quote the Official Kwanzaa Website, Ujamaa means "To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together".

Who better to provide culturally relevant gifts than African American and other Black-owned companies?

What I really love about producing this gifts guide is that I get to help promote exciting new products provided by Black business-owners and entrepreneurs. These gifts are often original and unique. No need to worry that someone else will have given him or her the same gift.

Book Reviews

These books are reviewed in the Black Holiday Gifts Guide.

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Resources

Christmas and Kwanzaa Treats
Yummy, scrummy chocolates. Lovely, indulgent treats for bath and body. Shiny goodies to help your home, office or party venue to sparkle.

Plus books, DVDs and more.

Enjoy the holiday season with these gifts for your loved ones - or yourself.
The Black Holiday Gifts Guide
Lots of gift ideas for African American families. Plus articles about Kwanzaa, free online fun, crafts, recipes and more.
Black Success Stories
Celebrating the achievements of people of African heritage. They explain how they achieved their success - and how you can, too.

For more information, visit Do You Think Like a Success?
Success Strategies for Black People
Practical, effective methods to help you achieve your goals. For more information and to order your copy, visit Success Strategies for Black People on Squidoo.
What They Don't Want Us to Know
The follow-up to Success Strategies for Black People. Gives the exact step-by-step method for manifesting what you want.
Kwanzaa Events 2011
Go here for Kwanzaa events listings.

Black Doll/White Doll

Young African American children have already learned that white dolls are preferable to Black ones

This video shows that at a very young age, African American children have already learned that white dolls are preferable to Black ones.

It is so important that we give our children toys and images that reflect them culturally.

Black Doll/White Doll

For culturally relevant gifts, see the Black Holiday Gifts Guide at the top of this page.

Black History Board Game

It's important that learning is fun for all the family.

In my book Black Success Stories, Jak Dodd talks about how he developed the Nubian Jak board game. Players compete to give factual information about a wide range of topics regarding Black history and culture, including education, entertainment, sports, the arts and the sciences. Although the game originally included only Black people in Europe, it now includes people of African culture on every contient.

For more information and to order your copy, visit Do You Think Like a Success? .

For your free copy of the Black holiday gifts guide, visit: Black Holiday Gifts Guide

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