The blogs thus far have been fantastic. Thank you so much for your hard work. As always, for those who will write after what has already been posted, try to say something a bit different form other posts.
I am including a link to an article I wrote on lynching which seems like many, many moons ago. Anyway, in it, I describe what a lot people had questions about: stories of women being lynched, and what does the commodification of lynching postcards mean. I also wrote a poem about the psychology of lynching that may be of interest:
http://www.lesley.edu/journals/jppp/10/index.html
One of the things we might discuss (and I don't want to dwell on lynching too long) is how one particular artist, Dwayne Wiggins, says about contemporary manifestations of lynching. Is his analogy in this song appropriate? Is the discourse of psychological lynching and the reality of police brutality an example of what Billie Holiday called Strange Fruit?
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