Access the Object that was clicked?

Access the Object that was clicked?

Hello everybody,

i have function appended to a click event of more than one objects. How can i check if the object that was clicked has a certain class xy?
  1. var t = jQuery(this);
  2. jQuery(t.children()).click(function(e) {
  3.       if (??check if the element that was clicked has class xy??){}
  4. }