Brook ThomasBrook Thomas is Chancellor’s Professor, Emeritus, at the University of California, Irvine. A scholar of law and literature, he has written about Tourgée for thirty years, including in Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History with Documents (1997); American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract (1999); Civic Myths: A Law and Literature Approach to Citizenship (2007); and, most recently, The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White (2017), which won the 2018 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. His essay “Albion W. Tourgée on Race, Class, and Caste” is forthcoming in ELH. Read More Read Less