Racists

:"For a general discussion of people with racist attitudes, see the article on racism."

"Racists" is a 2006 novel by Kunal Basu about a scientific experiment in the mid-19th century in which a white girl and a black boy are raised together as savages on a small uninhabited island off the coast of Africa. The long-term experiment is devised by the "racists" of the title, two rival scientists—one British, one French—to once and for all settle the question of racial superiority. [Kunal Basu(2006) "The Racists", Penguin ISBN 0143062255]

The characters in the novel are not based on any real people.

ee also

* Feral children
* Scientific racism
* Craniometry (the method used by the English scientist, a craniologist, to prove the white girl's superiority)

Reviews

* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1690125,00.html Mike Phillips] ("The Guardian")
* [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1401058.cms Rashmee Roshan Lall] ("The Times of India")
* [http://www.montrealserai.com/2007_Volume_20/20_1/Article_3.htm Maya Khankhoje]
* [http://www.countercurrents.org/pranoti060707.htm Pranoti Chirmuley]

References