Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West
Edited by Eric Gardner
University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
The first collection of the Reconstruction-era work of a rediscovered African American woman writer from California, with an extensive biographical and critical introduction and notes.
Interview on Jennie Carter at New Books in History
Praise for Jennie Carter:
“Jennie Carter[’s] . . . recovered writings enable us to . . . to better understand and conceptualize black literary culture and see the forgotten lives of African Americans in the West. Her voice and the history she represents, as Gardner’s well-assembled collection reveal, are deserving of our attention.” --African American Review
“This wonderful collection of semiautobiographical writings by an African American woman in 1860s and 1870s California remarkably complicates assumptions about blacks’ access to the middle class in the late-19th-century West even as it adds to and confirms a rich tradition of post-Gold Rush West Coast journalism.” --American Literary Scholarship
“Eric Gardner’s meticulously annotated collection of Jennie Carter’s contributions to the San Francisco Elevator is an invaluable resource for readers interested in or unaware of black pioneer culture. . . . Ultimately, this fine collection demonstrates the inestimable value of Carter’s journalism.” --Legacy
Edited by Eric Gardner
University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
The first collection of the Reconstruction-era work of a rediscovered African American woman writer from California, with an extensive biographical and critical introduction and notes.
Interview on Jennie Carter at New Books in History
Praise for Jennie Carter:
“Jennie Carter[’s] . . . recovered writings enable us to . . . to better understand and conceptualize black literary culture and see the forgotten lives of African Americans in the West. Her voice and the history she represents, as Gardner’s well-assembled collection reveal, are deserving of our attention.” --African American Review
“This wonderful collection of semiautobiographical writings by an African American woman in 1860s and 1870s California remarkably complicates assumptions about blacks’ access to the middle class in the late-19th-century West even as it adds to and confirms a rich tradition of post-Gold Rush West Coast journalism.” --American Literary Scholarship
“Eric Gardner’s meticulously annotated collection of Jennie Carter’s contributions to the San Francisco Elevator is an invaluable resource for readers interested in or unaware of black pioneer culture. . . . Ultimately, this fine collection demonstrates the inestimable value of Carter’s journalism.” --Legacy
