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

Abstract

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?

Keywords

• african american art
• american studies
• issue 4.2
• nineteenth-century art
• tanya sheehan
• thomas leclear