Playing the Race Card: Thomas Le Clear’s <em>High, Jack, Game</em>

I immediately recognized that the instruments of his labor—brushes and a bucket of whitewash, used to brighten the walls of soot-filled homes—were often the stuff of racial satire and caricature in the nineteenth century. Was this a sympathetic portrayal of an African American or something much more...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tanya Sheehan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2018-10-01
Series:	Panorama
Subjects:	african american art american studies issue 4.2 nineteenth-century art tanya sheehan thomas leclear
Online Access:	https://editions.lib.umn.edu/panorama/article/playing-the-race-card/

id	doaj-b9b03b90d6034d28b8b2578eb4351bae
record_format	Article
spelling	doaj-b9b03b90d6034d28b8b2578eb4351bae2021-06-16T20:21:02ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingPanorama2471-68392018-10-0142https://doi.org/10.24926/24716839.1665Playing the Race Card: Thomas Le Clear’s <em>High, Jack, Game</em>Tanya SheehanI immediately recognized that the instruments of his labor—brushes and a bucket of whitewash, used to brighten the walls of soot-filled homes—were often the stuff of racial satire and caricature in the nineteenth century. Was this a sympathetic portrayal of an African American or something much more complicated? https://editions.lib.umn.edu/panorama/article/playing-the-race-card/ african american artamerican studiesissue 4.2nineteenth-century arttanya sheehanthomas leclear
collection	DOAJ
language	English
format	Article
sources	DOAJ
author	Tanya Sheehan
spellingShingle	Tanya Sheehan Playing the Race Card: Thomas Le Clear’s <em>High, Jack, Game</em> Panorama african american art american studies issue 4.2 nineteenth-century art tanya sheehan thomas leclear
author_facet	Tanya Sheehan
author_sort	Tanya Sheehan
title	Playing the Race Card: Thomas Le Clear’s <em>High, Jack, Game</em>
title_short	Playing the Race Card: Thomas Le Clear’s <em>High, Jack, Game</em>
title_full	Playing the Race Card: Thomas Le Clear’s <em>High, Jack, Game</em>
title_fullStr	Playing the Race Card: Thomas Le Clear’s <em>High, Jack, Game</em>
title_full_unstemmed	Playing the Race Card: Thomas Le Clear’s <em>High, Jack, Game</em>
title_sort	playing the race card: thomas le clear’s <em>high, jack, game</em>
publisher	University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
series	Panorama
issn	2471-6839
publishDate	2018-10-01
description	I immediately recognized that the instruments of his labor—brushes and a bucket of whitewash, used to brighten the walls of soot-filled homes—were often the stuff of racial satire and caricature in the nineteenth century. Was this a sympathetic portrayal of an African American or something much more complicated?
topic	african american art american studies issue 4.2 nineteenth-century art tanya sheehan thomas leclear
url	https://editions.lib.umn.edu/panorama/article/playing-the-race-card/
work_keys_str_mv	AT tanyasheehan playingtheracecardthomasleclearsemhighjackgameem
_version_	1721374889343975424

Playing the Race Card: Thomas Le Clear’s <em>High, Jack, Game</em>

Similar Items