Black California Gold

Auteur

WENDY M. THOMPSON is an Oakland native whose creative work has most recently appeared in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Juked, and Hayden's Ferry Review. She is an associate professor of African American Studies at San José State University.

Texte du rabat

This exquisite debut poetry collection delves into the past and present of California's Bay Area, meditating on themes of family, migration, girlhood, and identity amidst a backdrop of urban redevelopment, gentrification, and the erasure of Black communities. Wendy M. Thompson meticulously charts a region where race, class, and language are but a few of the fault lines that fracture society, sparking recurrent tremors of violence and resistance and aftershocks of displacement and belonging.