Norris, Frank

The Lord must have had His reasons for making some of us white and some of us black, muses Annie Johnson in Imitation of Life (1959). In sharp contrast to the fading cultural regime under which writers like Dashiel Hammett would depict a racial underworld of immigrant gangsters, under which Frank Norris and Jack London would depict a naturalistic universe menaced by racially degenerate villains, or under which... 

Gossett, Race, pp. 198-227 Robert Bannister, Social Darwinism Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought (Philadelphia Temple University Press, 1979), pp. 212-225 Richard Hofstadter, Social Darwinism in American Thought (Boston Beacon, 1944), pp. 143-200 Walter LaFeber, The New Empire An Interpretation of American Expansionism (Ithaca Cornell University Press, 1964) Jack London, The Sea-Wolf [1904] (New York New American Library, 1964), pp. 68-69, 24, 79 Frank Norris, McTeague [1899] (New York Norton, 1977), pp. 25, 135. 

Submitted by James F. Norris. Checked by Frank C. Whitmore. 

James Leemann, a consultant and educator, is also critical of Norris s call to arms. To say the nation s effort to protect workers is stalled, is just plan absurd based on (he data and, frankly, offensive to (hose women and men who are working their tails off to ensure (he safety and health of their workers. Leemann points to the 13% drop in fatalities from 2008 to 2010. He allows that the decline might be due in part to the prolonged recession since 2008 and an unemployment rate above 8% and underemployment rates above 22%. 

Ibid., pp. 252-253 George Norris to Clinton Anderson, 17,27 Feb., 1 Mar. 1956, General Correspondence (Indemnity), Norris to Anderson, 6 Mar. 1956 (Insurance—Seminar, 1956), JCAE Papers Norris to Anderson, 1 Mar. 1956, Frank Cotter to Anderson, 5 Mar. 1956, JCAE press release, 14 Mar. 1956, Box 797, Anderson Papers. 

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