id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9440 Frank Norris - Wikipedia .html text/html 4418 729 72 As Donald Pizer writes "Frank Norris's racism, which included the most vicious anti-Semitic portrayals in any major work of American literature, has long been an embarrassment to admirers of the vigor and intensity of his best fiction and has also contributed to the decline of his reputation during the past several generations."[23] Other scholars have confirmed Norris's antisemitism.[24][25] Norris's work is often seen as strongly influenced by the scientific racism of the late 19th century, such as that espoused by his professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Joseph LeConte.[26] Along with his contemporary Jack London, Norris is seen as "reconstructing American identity as a biological category of Anglo-Saxon masculinity."[27] In Norris's work, critics have seen evidence of racism, antisemitism, and contempt for immigrants and the working poor, all of whom are seen as the losers in a Social-Darwinist struggle for existence.[28] Additionally, his "exaggeratedly muscular novels" seem to posit women as biologically subordinate to men.[29] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9440.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9440.txt