In 1970 Doug and Gloria Bates adopted a 4 year old black girl as a sister to their 2 biological white sons. 2 years later they adopted another black girl. GIFT CHILDREN is the story of the 23 year interracial journey that ensued, a story that helps illuminate race relations in America today while depicting both the harsh difficulties as well as the heartwarming rewards that followed. GIFT CHILDREN is an intimate portrait of race relations told through the history of the Bates family. It is a deeply American story about bringing up children (in this case, in Eugene, Oregon), about celebrating and growing together, about coping with family tensions and dilemmas, and about negotiating the difficult years of adolescence and young adulthood. While casting a sharp light on the racism that lies all about us--and often within us as well--it is preeminently a book about caring, trusting, loving, and working together. GIFT CHILDREN describes the problems, setbacks, and pain of a family's attempt to live interracially, but ultimately it tells of a signal success hard won in an imperfect world. All who are interested in families, adoption, and race relations in America will find GIFT CHILDREN an important and moving book.

Gift Children: A Story of Race, Family, and Adoption in a Divided America

Politics & Social Sciences

Bates, J.Douglas

Social Sciences

Ticknor & Fields

Doug Bates Fictive memoir is a compelling novel made up of 41 interconnected short stories. Bates takes his readers on a journey of his time as a combat medic. He is both a portagonist an narrator of moments of exquisite beauty and extreme horror . Though there is a great deal of emotion invested in this book it is not a book of blood and gore but a celebration of life . Bates plays down the GI language and the gore of war makeing this book a book any one can read a comming of age story. the impact war and the deep flet relations guys build with one anothers the comaraderie a look into the every day life of war on young men who faught for our country . It has been said by some readers that there is healing and understand in this book for mother's , father's wives, lover's, brother's sister's At times you will laugh with the humor that is bulit in and cry as you are indured to the characters .

Circles Around the Sun

McClanahan Publishing House

An inside view of the coveted award details the 1990 award process, introduces the finalists, recounts the history of the prize, and explains why it is so highly regarded

The Pulitzer Prize: The Inside Story of America's Most Prestigious Award

Business & Money

Birch Lane Pr

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