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Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux.(Review)
by J. Ronald Green.Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000. 316 pp., illus, Hardcover:$29.95.
Oscar Micheaux was born in 1884 in Illinois to freed slaves, and died in 1951, of hypertension, while promoting his books and films. Throughout his life he had three quite different but--at least for a time--successful careers, any one of which would have earned him a place in the history books. First, he was a homesteader on a South Dakota farm, a lone black among whites. When drought and the breakup of his first marriage led to the failure of his homesteading enterprise, he turned his experience into a novel, The Homesteader, and then wrote six ...
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