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"This book offers visual, social-historical analyses of paintings and drawings by the German Communist Karl Schwesig, following the course of Schwesig's own internments and the dehumanizing treatment that characterized the racialization of Jewish and "mixed-race" persons in Vichy France and the attempted elimination of political dissidents"--

Abstract
This article uses qualitative content analysis, historical archival data, and interviews with Holocaust survivors to examine artwork created during the Third Reich. It argues that these works are visual narratives that hold important empirical data about social conditions and structures during the Third Reich. These narratives, whether developed in prisons, camps, or ghettos, or in the aftermath of National Socialism, are key to understanding the victims' perspectives. Many works disclose intimate aspects of daily life that only victims saw and experienced. Thus, this artwork is an extremely valuable source for understanding prisoners' lives during the Third Reich. The article focuses on four examples: Karl Schwesig's prewar experiences illustrated in a series of prints that tell about his torture and the torture of other German Communists in a Düsseldorf jail; Malvina Schalekova's 1942–1944 drawings and paintings that expose daily life in the Terezin Ghetto; Fredrick Terna's postwar recollections about the camp at Dachau near the end of World War II; and Yehuda Bacon's 1945 retrospective of Auschwitz.

The hanging of a noose on the University of Mississippi's statue of civil rights pioneer James Meredith in February 2014 was framed by university administrators as the act of a few deviant white students, but our analysis suggests otherwise. A historical review shows the university's long-standing resistance to meaningful change and a continuing lack of transparency following racist incidents. Visual analysis shows that the university remains saturated with monuments, place names, and other symbols of racial dominance. Narratives of marginalized people on campus, including some of the authors, reveal the corrosive effects of normalized white supremacy. The authors' analysis suggests that, instead of an aberration, the noosing aligned the statue with the prevailing symbolic environment. This study builds bridges between sociological analysis and critical race theory and demonstrates the importance of group processes in understanding and responding to racist incidents on campuses.