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Hirsch described the Boston Tea Party as a “wild paradox: what was outrageous vandalism two centuries ago, we today cherish nationally as a symbol of the free soul.” But this act of political protest was also tied up with racial hierarchies: The activists disguised themselves in “redface,” both\n\n\tself-identifying with the Indigenous population as true “Americans” and playing into stereotypes of Native Americans as destructive savages.\n</p>\n<p>\n\tIn Hirsch’s words, the print valorizes “the vigilant activism that fed the spirit of our forebears.” A labor activist himself, Hirsch knew firsthand how such activism could be suppressed. He spent 1949 to 1955 in exile in Paris because he was labeled a  communist sympathizer by the US government during the anticommunist fervor known as the “Red Scare.”\n</p>","remarks":"Mele Gallery Rotation \"What is an American?\": Artists Reflect "},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"[Commissioned by Lorillard Company, New York]; gifted to the Princeton University art Museum, 1976.","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1975,"sortnumber":"1976  283x","published_date":"2026-06-12 02:00:39.022119","objectid":13321,"dimensions":"plate: 71 x 48.2 cm (27 15/16 x 19 in.)\r\nsheet: 89 x 58.5 cm (35 1/16 x 23 1/16 in.)\r\nmat: 101.6 x 76.2 cm. (40 x 30 in.)","on_view":true}