For fans of Kevin Young’s Bunk, Claudia Rankine, and Morgan Jerkins. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a classic American novel, often credited with helping to end slavery. Yet “Uncle Tom” is now sometimes used to refer to a Black person who is too obsequious or subservient to white people. The insult has been levelled at people like Jackie Robinson and Barack Obama. Black visual artists from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Kerry James Marshall to Kara Walker have exploring the history of racial