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READ ANTONIA -- DISCUSS ANTONIA

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This blog serves the readers of Willa Cather's My Antonia as a source for information and discussion. It is designed to support the Vigo County Public Library, Terre Haute, Indiana (go here) National Endowment for the Arts (go here) BIG READ programming

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Saturday, February 20, 2010

List of Immigrant Groups

What is this distinguished looking gentleman doing on the Read Antonia--Discuss Antonia blog? His name is Oscar Micheaux and he is considered by film historians to be the father of African American cinema. His first movie? A silent titled The Homesteader (1919). Micheaux did come close to Cather's Nebraska. He was a homesteader and farmed in South Dakota for several years.

Happy Black History Month.

Cather's famous novel is, among other things, very much about immigrants. (African American migrants from the South after the Civil War are not among these groups, but there is little doubt that African Americans did settle on the plains of Nebraska.) Cather's novel mentions a number of European and Asian immigrant groups. I invite you to do a little research and report on how many different ethnic groups are mentioned in the novel. All contributions to this list are appreciated.
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