Essay One:      Multiple Meanings of 'Strange Fruit'
Page Length: 3-5 typed pages, double spaced, 1 inch margins, 12pt Times font
Draft Due:      9:00 am, Wednesday, July 9, 2003, IN CLASS
Final Version Due:    12 noon, Friday, July 11, 2003, IN PROF'S OFFICE

Consider the many metaphorical implications and multiple meanings of the term "Strange Fruit" which have appeared in the texts, lectures and discussions this week. For example, in the song, "strange fruit" are the corpses of black men, the results of extrajudicial racist violence. However, "strange fruit" could also be an epithet used to describe gay men or other marginalized persons. In a 3-5 page paper discuss the similarities, differences and/or connections between these and other meanings derived from "strange fruit." 

You should include examples which draw upon the texts, lectures or concepts of all three professor and are encouraged to go beyond the examples offered in this prompt.

Be sure to:
        proofread your final submission
        use themes and terms generated in the readings,
        cite appropriately, and
        defend your statements