Racializing the soldier: an introduction

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Notes

¹See David Theo Goldberg, Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (Oxford and Cambridge MA: Blackwell 1993), 3, where he argues: ‘Race is one of the central conceptual inventions of modernity.’ See also Paul Gilroy, Between Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race (London: Penguin 2000), 53, which asserts that race may be ‘modernity's most pernicious signature’.

²See Michael Banton, Racial Theories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1987).

³The construction of racial Selves and Others was most famously discussed by Edward Said in Orientalism (New York: Vintage 1979). It is an analysis that has been problematized by research such as David Cannadine's Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire (London: Allen Lane 2000).

⁴H. N. Hutchinson, J. W. Gregory and R. Lydekker (eds), The Living Races of Mankind: A Popular Illustrated Account of the Customs, Habits, Pursuits, Feasts and Ceremonies of the Races of Mankind throughout the World (London: Hutchinson and Co. 1900), ii.

⁵Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, trans. from the French by Constance Farrington (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1969), 37.

⁶Hutchinson, Gregory and Lydekker, The Living Races of Mankind, 381.

⁷Hutchinson, Gregory and Lydekker, The Living Races of Mankind, 293.

⁸J. H. Patterson, The Man Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures (London: Fontana 1973), 49, 71, 180.

⁹J. H. Patterson, With the Judeans in the Palestine Campaign (London: Hutchinson 1922).

¹⁰See Ter Ellingson, The Myth of the Noble Savage (Berkeley: University of California Press 2001).

¹¹See Richard A. Soloway, Demography and Degeneration: Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth-century Britain (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1990), and G. R. Searle, The Quest for National Efficiency: A Study in British Politics and Political Thought, 1899–1914 (London: Ashfield 1990).

¹²See Arthur Marwick, War and Social Change in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Study of Britain, France, Germany, Russia and the United States (London: Macmillan 1974), and Jeremy Black, The Age of Total War, 1860–1945 (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2006).

¹³See Gilroy, Between Camps, 12.