Question

In the novel The Human Stain by Philip Roth, a professor at a college in the Northeast is forced into early retirement after he is accused of racism. The charge turns out to be ironic when the reader learns that the professor has a secret. The professor was born to African American parents and has been covering up his heritage and living as a white man his whole adult life. Of what is this an example_______.

Answer 1

Passing

Step-by-step explanation:

The novel was an example of racial passing, which is something that occurs when an individual who belongs to a racial group is seen to be a member of another racial group which is not their own. Most African-American people were passed as white due to the copulation between white plantation owners and slave women.