The human stigma

The novel "The Human Stigma" by American writer Philip Roth, winner of the Fokner Prize, one of the most important American literary awards, translated by Fatima Naoot. The events of the novel revolve around a Classics professor of Greek and dean of one of America's universities, at the age of seventy-one, known for his scientific and administrative competence, who has a relationship with an uneducated woman in her mid-thirties, and becomes involved in a racial issue, which is a serious charge in America, brought against him by two black students, leading him to resign from his university job. The strange thing is that he belongs to African Americans, but he hides this by concealing his white skin, in order to escape the "stigma" of being black.