J. Kameron Carter is Professor of African American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Religious Studies at the University of California, Irvine. With attention on “political theology,” Professor Carter examines questions of race and ecology (or where the social and the environmental meet) through religion, literature, and philosophy. He is the author of Race: A Theological Account (Oxford University Press, 2008), editor of Religion and the Futures of Blackness (2013), editor of The Matter of Black Religion (2021), and author of The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song (Duke University Press, 2023). His next book is Whiteness: A Religious Lamentation (Yale University Press, forthcoming).