Eco-womanism, Ecological Memory, and Womanist Theology

Mary Evelyn Tucker from Yale University interviews Melanie Harris (author of Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths, one of the volumes in the Orbis Books Ecology & Justice Series). This video is one of the many pieces of original content from the Yale/Coursera online courses: Religions and Ecology: Restoring the Earth Community https://fore.yale.edu/Resources/Yale-...

Dr. Melanie L. Harris is Professor of Black Feminist Thought and Womanist Theology at Wake Forest School of Divinity and the African American Studies program at Wake Forest University. Dr. Harris is also the Director of the Food, Health and Ecological Well-Being Program. A graduate of the Harvard Leadership Program, Dr. Harris is a former American Council of Education Fellow and Founding Director of the Texas Christian University African American and Africana Studies program. Her research and scholarship critically examines intersections between race, religion, gender and environmental ethics. She is the author of many scholarly articles and books including Gifts of Virtue: Alice Walker and Womanist Ethics (Palgrave), Ecowomanism: Earth Honoring Faiths (Orbis) and co-editor of Faith, Feminism, and Scholarship: The Next Generation (Palgrave) as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters.