Rate My Professor Wendy Thompson

Currently, Thompson is revising her book manuscript titled Chasing the Sun: Staging Life, Belonging and Displacement in the Black Bay Area, which frames African American reverse migration and displacement within the extended Great Migration using "staging" as a lens for performances, objects, spaces, and gestures. She has submitted a first poetry collection based on her multiracial Black-Chinese experiences in the Bay Area, with poems forthcoming in journals. Notable publications include co-editing Sparked: George Floyd, Racism, and the Progressive Illusion (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2021), featuring her chapter "All the Stars Point North"; "Bringing Home the News: Reading Black Family History, the Second World War, and Change in Marin City" (California History, 2022); "Weird/Black/Play" (The Radical Teacher, 2022); and "Despite Your Tiger Mother, or Your Other Racial Half Will Not Save You from What the World Thinks of Your Blackness" (Meridians, 2018). Upcoming is Black California Gold (Rutgers University Press, 2025). She teaches courses like AFAM/ENVS 151 on Race, Class, and the Environment and serves as undergraduate advisor. Her work integrates personal family history with broader scholarly inquiry into racialized property, suburbanization, and collective memory.