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What is Theme of Roth's book "The Human Stain"?

  • Politics

  • Racial identity

  • Alien abduction

  • Romantic relationships

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The Human Stain is a novel by Philip Roth that explores Theme of racial identity. The protagonist, Coleman Silk, is a Jewish man who is mistaken for a black man and subsequently fired from his job as a college professor. Silk's experience leads him to question his own racial identity and to explore the ways in which race is constructed and policed in American society.
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