Racist Book About Immigration Written by someone French

Factual Questions
1

I think his first name was Jacque. Would anyone know the title of the book with the following plot?

The lower castes of India board a ship out of desperation and head for the West. They pretty much invade France…their forces are unable to fire b/c of their internal PC complexes-eventually oppressed people the world over take over their governments and the West falls. It was written in the early 1970s I think. It was cited in a poli sci article I read in college and I’m wracking my brains trying to think of the name of the book and the author.

2

I don’t remember the name of the author offhand, but am virtually certain that the book title was The Camp of the Saints.

It could be called … uh, a classic, in some morbid sense.

As I recall, the Spotlight (sorry, no link at the moment) gave it a pretty laudatory review.

3

Jean Raspail, Camp des Saints (The Camp of the Saints) translated by Norman Shapiro.

Published by Scribner, [1975]
ISBN# 0684142406

4

Yes, it was titled “Camp of the Saints”

However, why would you call it racist, unless you are refering to the immigrants in the book who invaded and siezed control of France?

5

Thanks for your help guys. That was it exactly…I liked the book quite a bit.

The parts that I felt were racist were the imagery describing the Indians…“turd eater” “sea of ghandi arms” among others. Perhaps xenophobic would be a better word…whatever you prefer.

For all its xenophobia, I remember liking it because in some small way it also detailed the arrogance of the West. Anyhoo…that’s exactly what I was thinking of.

Anu

PS-I was reading an article on immigration and refugees and it quoted from that book while discussing prevailing attitudes on the subject. Just in case you want to know.