Publisher's Synopsis
The name of Trayvon Martin has become trope which crystallises US racial politics regarding Blackness, specifically the Black male: a metaphoric symbol of this history of America's regard for Black bodies, as well as a metonym, a name that has become a contemporary substitute for terrorist attacks targeting Black bodies. The works included here imply that Martin, as trope, reverberates in the most conscientious of 'US'; and, that this epic tragedy is one that has plagued 'US' since Africans and people of African descent first arrived in the Americas.
