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Dear H-AmIndian Colleagues, Malinda Maynor Lowery and I have the outlines of a panel on Indians and race in the 20th century for the 2009 NASI meetings in Tucson and are seeking a third paper and a commentator/chair. Malinda's paper focuses on the racial identity of blues legend Charlie Patton, whose music defied white supremacy. Patton had little African American ancestry and was most likely of Choctaw descent, yet he is remembered as black rather than Indian. Malinda's paper explores the spaces between these two racial identities at the turn of the twentieth century and evaluates the dimensions of the blues as a black American cultural expression. My paper explores the civil rights strategies of the Mississippi Choctaw tribal council in the 1950s. The conventional historical narrative of civil rights activism in Mississippi dismisses Choctaws as having "sat out" the civil rights movement. My research suggests that Choctaw leaders did carry out a civil rights campaign in which they framed their activism in their identity both as Choctaws and as Americans. Anyone interested in participating in this panel please contact Katherine Osburn at kosburn@tntech.edu. As I will be out of the country from November 20-28th, please copy Malinda on your message at: mmaynor@email.unc.edu. Thanks, Katherine Katherine M.B. Osburn Professor, Department of History, Box 5064 Tennessee Technological University Cookeville, TN 38501 Phone: 931-372-6297
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