Word: swastikas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dector and Michel Dupuy's joint contribution, Drancy (1994), is a segmented white canvas with a smeared, irregular blot faded into its surface. Suggestive at first glance of a stain beneath the skin, good and evil blurred, it is identified in the exhibition program as the depiction of a swastika, whitewashed over in a Paris suburb. According to the artists, the French authorities paint over persistent expressions of Neo-Nazi sympathy. Drancy's whitewash addresses the equally obscured period in French history of Vichy France complicity...
...years ago, someone painted a swastika on a house elevator door...
Regional pride and identity taken to an extreme, however, can cause tension. In 1991, students reacted to Kerrigan's flag with protests, eat-ins and a publicly-displayed Nazi swastika flag...
Soutanian said that to his knowledge Black students have not had a problem in Mather in the past. But this is not Mather's first racial incident. Two years ago, someone painted a swastika on a Mather House elevator door...
...That was a swastika in an elevator, this was a racial slur written on the door of a tutor. This is a much more personal attack," Peckham said...