Sandy’s "Black Looks": Countertemporal Postures and the Reclamation of Time with Dr. Ersula J. Ore.

The John F. Eberhardt Lecture and KU English Department presents, “Sandy’s ‘Black Looks’: Countertemporal Postures and the Reclamation of Time” with Dr. Ersula J. Ore. Join us April 13, 2021 4pm-5pm. 

Taking Sandra Bland's 2015 arrest as its point of departure, and thinking specifically about how misogynoir arrests, 'takes up' time, and depletes the 'lived time' of Black women, this lecture considers the ways civility discourse manifests temporally as capture in the lives of Black women and how the countertemporal orientation of 'black looks' enacts a Black feminist declaration to reclaim time in pursuit of a more just future.

Dr. Ersula J. Ore is an Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Arizona State University. Her work draws on scholarship in Black Feminist theory, rhetorical theory, anti-Blackness, and racialized violence. Her book, Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, & American Identity (University Press of Mississippi, 2019), which examines lynching as a rhetorical strategy and material practice interwoven with the formation of America's national identity, received the 2020 Book Award from the Rhetoric Society America.