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Collection Overview
- Collector:
- Tumin, Melvin M. (Melvin Marvin), 1919-1994
- Title:
- Melvin M. Tumin Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6d56zw699
- Dates:
- 1942-2007
- Size:
- 5 boxes and 1.6 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-5
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Melvin Tumin was a professor of sociology and anthropology at Princeton University. Consists of correspondence, articles, papers, and book reviews by Melvin Tumin, including his dissertation research on the ladino and Pokomám Maya population of San Luis Jilotepeque in Eastern Guatemala. The collection is especially notable for Tumin's correspondence with writers Saul Bellow, Iris Murdoch, and Philip Roth.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
This collection consists of correspondence, articles, papers, and book reviews by Melvin Tumin. Included are typed and handwritten letters, typescripts, offprints, journals, and programs, among others. Also included are research notes, photographs, and a draft of Tumin's dissertation, "San Luis Jilotepeque: A Study in Social Relations" (Ph.D. thesis, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 1944) as well as a draft of Tumin's last, unpublished book, "Freedom, Fairness and Wealth." The collection is especially notable for Tumin's correspondence with writers Saul Bellow, Iris Murdoch, and Philip Roth.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Tumin, Melvin M. (Melvin Marvin), 1919-1994
Melvin Tumin was a professor of sociology and anthropology at Princeton University. Before coming to Princeton in 1947, Tumin served as director of the Mayor's Commission on Race Relations in Detroit. Noted for his research on segregation and desegregation, he was also one of the first to speak up against what Philip Roth, then a writer-in-residence at Princeton, called "blatant patterns of discrimination against Jews" in the university's student clubs. Tumin retired from Princeton in 1989.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Sylvia Tumin in 2011 (AM2011-72, 2011-102). Transferred from Mudd.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Regine Heberlein in 2011. Finding aid written by Regine Heberlein in 2011.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Melvin M. Tumin Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6d56zw699
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-5
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- Subject Terms:
- Antisemitism -- United States -- 20th century.
Authors -- Correspondence -- 20th century.
Pokomam Indians -- 20th century.
Segregation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sociologists -- United States -- History -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence.
- Names:
- Bellow, Saul
Murdoch, Iris
Roth, Philip, 1933-2018
Tumin, Melvin M. (Melvin Marvin), 1919-1994
