{"id":8018,"date":"2000-05-06T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2000-05-06T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=8018"},"modified":"2021-07-01T02:49:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T02:49:59","slug":"philip-roths-racist-novel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2000\/05\/06\/philip-roths-racist-novel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Roth&#8217;s Racist Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 12:11:17 -0500<br>From: A.D. Powell<br>Subject: Philip Roth\u2019s racist novel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Philip Roth has published a new novel promoting the myth of the \u201clight-skinned black\u201d and \u201cwhite racial purity.\u201d It\u2019s called \u201cThe Human Stain.\u201d Guess what that \u201cstain\u201d is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/00\/05\/07\/reviews\/000507.07mooret.html?bk0505\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/00\/05\/07\/reviews\/000507.07mooret.html?bk0505<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This New York Times Book Review reveals even more of the \u201cwhite purity\u201d racism promoted in Philip Roth\u2019s, \u201cThe Human Stain.\u201d Note that the New York Times reviewer who describes the very \u201cwhite\u201d main character as \u201cblack\u201d is Asian. Especially insulting, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/library\/books\/050200roth-book-review.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/library\/books\/050200roth-book-review.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 12:11:17 -0500From: A.D. PowellSubject: Philip Roth\u2019s racist novel Philip Roth has published a new novel promoting the myth of the \u201clight-skinned black\u201d and \u201cwhite racial purity.\u201d It\u2019s called \u201cThe&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[121,136],"class_list":["post-8018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-biracial-and-multiracial","tag-popular-culture-and-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-25k","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018","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=8018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8019,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018\/revisions\/8019"}],"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=8018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}