Gilroy, "Hitler Wore Khakis" Sight and Sound

[Dave Monroe]

Lt. Slothrop, sir--

Sight and Sound does have a website,
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/.  I can't tell that's it's
searchable, though it does list back issue details, see
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/backissues/index.html.  Some
material from the past year is online @
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/archive/index.html, but I don't
recall any such claim about a Dogmetic J3 being made, much less
seriously.  April (as in "Fools") issue, perhaps?  Do recall some
shenanigans there.  I don't get rid of anything, so I likely have that
issue somewhere around the house--trick is finding it.  The local
university library gets it, when I get a chance I'll take a look, though
it'll likely be after the weekend at earliest.  Feel free to e-mail me
to remind me ...

Tyrone Slothrop wrote:

> 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?
>
> Check www.dogme95.dk
> --- 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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