Gilroy, "Hitler Wore Khakis" Sight and Sound

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Dave,

How long have you been reading Sight and Sound? Do you
have old copies? I heard about a year ago there was an
article or a blurb about Jurassic Park 3 being filmed
according to the Dogme Vows. Do you have this issue?
What does the article say? I love Dogme and have tried
to find old copies of Sight and Sound, but I don't
which issue it was in and I can't order the right one
without knowing which one is right.

Can you help? Can anyone help?

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--- Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu> wrote:
> ... was led to this by an editorial on Leni
> Riefenstahl in the current
> issue of Sight and Sound, of all places.  Fans of
> reggae and hip-hop
> here might well be interseted in Paul Gilroy's There
> Ain't No Black in
> the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and
> Nation (Chicago: U of
> Chicago P 1991 [1987]) and The Black Atlantic:
> Modernity and Double
> Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1993),
> respectively, but, in
> the meantime, from his recent Against Race:
> Imagining Political Culture
> beyond the Color Line (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP,
> 2000), pub. in the UK
> as Bewteen Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure
> of Race
> (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000), Chapter 4, "Hitler
> Wore Khakis," pp.
> 137-76 (UK pagination may differ) ...
> 
> The loss of German colonies after 1918 turned German
> racial science in a
> distinctive direction by reducing opportunities to
> study colonial
> peoples at a stroke.  By itself, the history of
> German anthropology,
> which was closely connected to teh develoopment of
> racial hygiene,
> raises what can only be described as an interesting
> prima facie case for
> the importance of raciology as a critical link
> between colonial
> administration and the subsequent catastrophic
> direction of genocidal
> social policy under Nazism.  One pivotal figure in
> establishing that
> connection was Eugen Fischer, a prominent figure in
> teh intellectual
> pantheon of the Nazi academy.  He was his country's
> most distinguished
> anthropologist and expert on "race-mixing" during
> the interwar years.
> He is remembered now as the director of teh Kaiser
> Wilhelm Institute for
> Anthropology, Genetics, and Eugenics and as teh
> author of The Rehoboth
> Bastards and the Problem of Miscegenation among
> Humans ....   Fischer
> had conducted the fieldwork for his ground-breaking
> study in teh German
> colony of South West Africa in 1908--one year after
> the defeat of teh
> Hereros.  His subject was defined through a study of
> teh results of
> racial intermixture bewteen Dutch and Hottentot
> populations.  The impact
> of his work would be felt later in the racial
> legislation enacted under
> the Nazis.  (141-2)
> 
> From this auspicious beginning, Fischer's career,
> which parallels the
> professional odyssey of his dear friend Martin
> Heidegger in a number of
> ways (not least hsi role in cleansing Germany's most
> prestigious
> university of Jews), took him to teh Nazi-appointed
> rectorship of Berlin
> University in 1933, and to such tasks as judging the
> "ideal Nordic head"
> in a competition ....  He would later employ teh sam
> scientific skills
> in training the SS physicians who would make camp
> selections in physical
> anthropology and racial science ....  In concert
> with his better-known
> colleague Hans Gunther ... Fischer also helped to
> organize the
> anthropological evaluation of the
> "Rheinlandbastarde," the mongrel
> offspring of German women and the French colonial
> troops who had been
> placed in teh Rheinland as an accupying army after
> 1918. (142)
> 
> If anthropologists and distinguished professors like
> Fischer made use of
> their colonial experiences in later activities
> inside Europe, might not
> the military men have done the same thing?  The
> possibility of any
> linkage need not, of course, be approached
> exclusively in a negative
> mode.  We might also ask whether, by the time the
> Nazis had siezed
> power, there was any lingering life left in teh
> political and religious
> opinion that had protested over General von Trotha's
> lusty but
> controversial attempts at the extermination of teh
> Herero people he held
> in "protective custody." (143)
> 
> ... but it's the sources cited in Gilroy's endnotes
> that might be of
> particular interest here.  First off, he cites what
> seems to be a
> veritable genre of "German novels dealing with the
> suppression of the
> Herero uprising in South West Africa" (p. 369, n.
> 10), e.g.,
> 
> Frenssen, Gustav.  Peter Moors Fahrt nach Sudwest:
> Ein Feldugs-
>     bericht.  Berlin: Thousand, 1936 [1907].
> 
> Grimm, Hans.  Sudafrikanishe Novellen. 
> Frankfurt/Main, 1913
> 
> ... and refers the reader to ...
> 
> Ridley, Hugh.  Images of Imperial Rule.  London:
> Croom Helm, 1983.
> 
> .. on Fischer et al., see, apparently ...
> 
> Proctor, Robert.  "From Anthropologie to Rassenkunde
> in the German
>     Anthropological Tradition."  Bones, Bodies,
> Behavior: Essays on
>     Biological Anthropology.  Ed. George W.
> Stocking.  Madison: U of
>     Wisconsin p, 1988.
> 
> __________.  Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the
> Nazis.
>     Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1988.
> 
> Weindling, Paul.  Health, Race and German Politics
> between National
>     Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945.  (New York:
> Cambridge UP, 1988)
> 
> Weiss, Sheila Faith.  "The Race-Hygiene Movement in
> Germany."
>     Osiris (2nd series), 3 (1987), pp. 193-236.
> 
> ... these might be of particular interest ...
> 
> Lester, Rosemarie K.  "Blacks in Germany and German
> Blacks:
>     A Little Known Aspect of Black History."  Blacks
> and German
>     Culture.  Ed. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand. 
> Madison:
>     U of Wisconsin P, 1986.
> 
> Pommerin, Reiner.  Sterilisierung der Rheinlande
> bastarde:
>     Das Schiksal einer farbigen deutschen
> Minderheit, 1918-1937.
>     Droste, 1979.
> 
> If anyone's familiar with any of these (Proctor I
> know, and Stocking has
> been publishing on and editing collections about
> colonialism and
> anthropology for some time, otherwise ...), let me
> know ...
> 


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