{"id":5049,"date":"2000-05-06T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2000-05-06T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:10:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:10:12","slug":"philip-roths-racist-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2000\/05\/06\/philip-roths-racist-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Roth&#8217;s racist novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Roth has published a new novel promoting the myth of the &#8220;light-skinned black&#8221; and &#8220;white racial purity.&#8221; It&#8217;s called &#8220;The Human Stain.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/00\/05\/07\/reviews\/000507.07mooret.html?bk0505\">Guess what that &#8220;stain&#8221; is<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This New York Times Book Review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/library\/books\/050200roth-book-review.html\">reveals even more of the &#8220;white purity&#8221; racism<\/a> promoted in Philip Roth&#8217;s, &#8220;The Human Stain.&#8221; Note that the New York Times reviewer who describes the very &#8220;white&#8221; main character as &#8220;black&#8221; is Asian. Especially insulting, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Roth has published a new novel promoting the myth of the &#8220;light-skinned black&#8221; and &#8220;white racial purity.&#8221; It&#8217;s called &#8220;The Human Stain.&#8221; Guess what that &#8220;stain&#8221; is. This New York Times Book Review&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-popular-culture-and-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1jr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7101,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions\/7101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}