Strange Fruit?: The Social Ecology of Extralegal Violence against Afro-Americans from the New York City Draft Riots to the Wilmington, North Carolina Coup D’état, 1863-1898

That image of “Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze.” The intuition that Trayvon Martin’s murderer gets away with it. Endless video of spectators watching George Floyd be lynched. And the image of yourself we both know you can’t erase—the one where you also stand frozen in your place. From what seeds do these images spring?

And are they really such strange fruit?