Racists
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- 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.[1]
The characters in the novel are not based on any real people.
[edit] See also
- Feral children
- Scientific racism
- Craniometry (the method used by the English scientist, a craniologist, to prove the white girl's superiority)
[edit] Reviews
- Mike Phillips (The Guardian)
- Rashmee Roshan Lall (The Times of India)
- Maya Khankhoje
- Pranoti Chirmuley
[edit] References
- ^ Kunal Basu(2006) The Racists, Penguin ISBN 0143062255
