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Article: DEBATE RAGES OVER AUTHOR LONDON'S RACIAL VIEWS.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 21, 1996
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A controversy has erupted in Canada's Yukon over charges that Jack London, the American author whose adventure stories brought worldwide fame to the frigid territory, was a racist.
London's admirers and some scholars dispute the claims, saying they represent a misguided effort to judge the writer out of context by today's standards of political correctness. Even so, the allegations were enough last month to derail a plan by the territorial capital to name a street after London.
Best known for his classics ``Call of the Wild'' and ``White Fang,'' London traveled the frozen Yukon almost a century ago as part of the Klondike gold rush. Tomorrow is the 80th ...