A Radical Notion of Democracy – Afternoon Panel Discussion (11/4/11) from CSAS on Vimeo.
Literature Into Law: Interrogating Democracy in the Post-Reconstruction Nation
On Tourgée as national civil rights advocate and architect of Homer Plessy’s case, as well as the historical reception of his concept of “color-blind” justice.
Moderator/panelist
Alfred Brophy, Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law, UNC School of Law, writes about the racial history of the South and its contemporary impact. His books include Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation (2002) and Reparations Pro and Con (2006).
Panelists
Brook Thomas, Chancellor’s Professor of English, School of Humanities, University of California-Irvine. He is editor of the casebook Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History With Documents (Bedford, 1997) as well as author of numerous essays on the law and literature of the postwar nineteenth century.
Michael Curtis, Judge Donald L. Smith Professor in Constitutional and Public Law, Wake Forest University School of Law, is a preeminent constitutional historian and author of No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights (1986).
John David Smith , the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of History at UNC Charlotte. With Mark Elliott, Smith has edited a collection of Tourgée’s papers, Undaunted Radical: The Selected Writings and Speeches of Albion W. Tourgée (2010).