Racists (novel)

Racists

First edition
Author	Kunal Basu
Language	English
Publisher	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication date	January 2006 (1st edition)
Publication place	United Kingdom
ISBN	978-0-297-85066-3

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]