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Melvin Marvin Tumin (February 10, 1919 – March 3, 1994) was an American sociologist who specialized in race relations. He taught at Princeton University for much of his career. He taught at Princeton University for much of his career.
It had been speculated that this incident inspired Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain, [11] though Roth has stated that his source was an incident in the career of sociologist and professor Melvin Tumin. [12]
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This email is what led Roth to publish in the New Yorker, giving the real inspiration for the novel and its protagonist, Coleman Silk, in great detail: the experience of Melvin Tumin, a long-tenured professor of sociology at Princeton, with a seemingly innocuous question which turned into multiple major accusations of racism.
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Melvin Tumin, former professor of sociology, Princeton University; Frederick Jackson Turner (1884, MA 1888), historian and professor, Pulitzer Prize winner; Joseph Tussman, former professor of philosophy, University of California, Berkeley; Michael Uebel, professor, author; Ruth Hill Useem, former professor of sociology, Michigan State University
The Human Stain is a novel by Philip Roth, published May 5, 2000.The book is set in Western Massachusetts in the late 1990s. Its narrator is 65-year-old author Nathan Zuckerman, who appears in several earlier Roth novels, including two books that form a loose trilogy with The Human Stain, American Pastoral (1997) and I Married a Communist (1998). [1]