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Books by Aiello Thomas






Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration
The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate (Print Culture in the South Ser.)
by Aiello, Thomas
Paperback, 382 Pages, Published 2023 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-6285-4, ISBN: 0-8203-6285-9






The Life and Times of Louis Lomax
The Art of Deliberate Disunity
by Aiello, Thomas
Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2021 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-1180-4, ISBN: 1-4780-1180-7






Solemnity
by Aiello, Thomas
Trade Paperback, Published 2020 by Lulu.Com
ISBN-13: 978-1-71691-132-3, ISBN: 1-71691-132-X






The Trouble in Room 519
Money, Matricide, and Marginal Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century
by Aiello, Thomas
Published by Lsu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7710-5, ISBN: 0-8071-7710-5






Jim Crow's Last Stand(Updated)
Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana
by Thomas Aiello
Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2019 by Lsu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7237-7, ISBN: 0-8071-7237-5

"A remnant of the racist post-Reconstruction Redeemer sociopolitical agenda, Louisiana’s nonunanimous jury-verdict law permitted juries to convict criminal defendants with only nine, and later ten, out of twelve votes: a legal oddity. On the surface, it was meant to speed convictions. In practice, the law funneled many convicts―especially African Americans―into Louisiana’s burgeoning convict lease system. Although it faced multiple legal ..."






The Grapevine of the Black South
by Aiello, Thomas
Published 2018 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5446-0, ISBN: 0-8203-5446-5






The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate That Shaped the Course of Civil Rights
by Thomas Aiello
Hardcover, 576 Pages, Published 2016 by Praeger
ISBN-13: 978-1-4408-4357-0, ISBN: 1-4408-4357-0

"In the 20 years between 1895 and 1915, two key leaders―Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois―shaped the struggle for African American rights. This book examines the impact of their fierce debate on America's response to Jim Crow and positions on civil rights throughout the 20th century―and evaluates the legacies of these two individuals even today.The debate between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington on how to further social and ..."






Paul Morphy(Updated)
Pride and Sorrow of Chess
by David Lawson, Thomas Aiello
Paperback, 430 Pages, Published 2010 by Univ Of Louisiana At Lafayette
ISBN-13: 978-1-887366-97-7, ISBN: 1-887366-97-0

""Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess" is the only full-length biography of Paul Morphy, the antebellum chess prodigy who launched United States participation in international chess and is still generally acknowledged as the greatest American chess player of all time. But Morphy was more than a player. He was a shy, retiring lawyer who had been taught that such games were no way to make a living. The strain of his fame and the pul ..."






Hoops
A Cultural History of Basketball in America (American Ways)
by Thomas Aiello
Hardcover, Published 2022 by Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md
ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-4711-5, ISBN: 1-5381-4711-4






Dixieball(1st Edition)
Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947–1979 (Sports & Popular Culture)
by Thomas Aiello
Hardcover, 182 Pages, Published 2019 by Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-463-2, ISBN: 1-62190-463-6

""In this book Thomas Aiello considers the special cultural function of professional basketball in the Deep South for more than a quarter century between 1947 and 1979."






The Grapevine of the Black South
The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation before the Civil Rights Movement (Print Culture in the South Ser.)
by Thomas Aiello, Sarah Gardner, Jonathan Wells
Paperback, 310 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5445-3, ISBN: 0-8203-5445-7

"In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius. In 1930 his Atlanta World became a semiweekly, and the following year W. A. began to implement his vision for a massive newspaper chain based out of Atlanta: the Southern Newspaper Syndicate, later dubbed the Scott Newspaper Syndicate. In April 1931 the World had become a triweekly, and its reach began drifting beyond th ..."






The Tyranny of Architecture
A Vegan Apologetic
by Thomas Aiello
Paperback, 126 Pages, Published 2017 by Lulu.Com
ISBN-13: 978-1-365-79901-3, ISBN: 1-365-79901-8

"The Tyranny of Architecture is a full philosophical defense of veganism, one that defends the practice in a way fundamentally unique among such arguments. It makes the case that in a human society built on artificial constructs, the only demonstrable ethics not part of an imagined community is that of respecting the right to life and contentment, construed for farmed animals as adequate food, space, and other basic amenities, along with ..."






Dan Burley's Jive(1st Edition)
by Thomas Aiello, Dan Burley
Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2009 by Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87580-623-5, ISBN: 0-87580-623-6

"These two rare books are now available in one volume, including all original illustrations. This retro volume combines two brilliant and long out-of-print books, Dan Burley's "Original Handbook of Harlen Jive" (1944) and "Diggeth Thou?" (1959) by Dan Burley. Burley was a journalist and sportswriter who worked for various African American newspapers and magazines, including the "Chicago Defender", "Chicago Crusader", "New York New Amster ..."






Saint Norman
by Dr Thomas Aiello
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2002 by Iuniverse
ISBN-13: 978-0-595-25852-9, ISBN: 0-595-25852-2

"Ruth Messier had been sitting in a special care hospital strapped to a chair for twenty-five years. She couldn't see or hear. She couldn't smell or taste or feel. She had no arms and no legs. Ruth Messier was a bowling ball.Unbeknownst to the torso, a gun-toting teenager killed fourteen patrons of the Thrifty Mart, a gas station just across the street from Ruth's special care hospital. At the same time, a woman ran out on her alcoholic ..."






Womb of Monsters(Illustrated)
or, The Fine Art Of Blasphemy In A Post-Religious World
by Dr Thomas Aiello
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2001 by Iuniverse
ISBN-13: 978-0-595-20665-0, ISBN: 0-595-20665-4

"In the late sixties, a rogue psychiatrist created a gated community of mental patients called Yesterday, utilizing some revolutionary mental health techniques. When Orson Littlefield is sent to the Yesterday mental facility, he is introduced to a new medication that makes his delusions come to life. His next door neighbor, who is actually just another part of his delusion, becomes enraged when Orson kicks yet another figment of his imag ..."






White Ice
Race and the Making of Atlanta Hockey (Sports & Popular Culture) [Hardcover ]
by Thomas Aiello
Hardcover, 193 Pages, Published 2024 by The University Of Tennessee Press 2024-01-31, Knoxville
ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-835-7, ISBN: 1-62190-835-6

"... Hohlstein , William , 139n Holan , Milos , 117–18 Holiday on Ice , 8 , 14 Holmes , Oliver Wendell , 24 Hope , Bob , 104 Houston Apollos , 12 , 16 Houston Huskies , 9 Houston Oilers , 105 Houston Skippers , 9 Howe , Gordie , 27 , 73 ..."






Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved(1st Edition)
The Glue-Sniffing Epidemic of the 1960s
by Thomas Aiello
Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2015 by Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87580-724-9, ISBN: 0-87580-724-0

""Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved "tells the story of the American glue-sniffing epidemic of the 1960s, from the first reports of use to the unsuccessful crusade for federal legislation in the early 1970s. The human obsession with inhalation for intoxication has deep roots, from the oracle at Delphi to Judaic biblical ritual. The discovery of nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and the ..."






The Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath
(Paperback or Softback)
by Thomas Aiello
Paperback, Published 2021 by University Press Of Mississippi, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-3537-6, ISBN: 1-4968-3537-9






Jim Crow's Last Stand
Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana
by Dr Thomas Aiello
Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2015 by Louisiana State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-5899-9, ISBN: 0-8071-5899-2

"The last remnant of the racist Redeemer agenda in the Louisiana's legal system, the nonunanimous jury-verdict law permits juries to convict criminal defendants with only ten out of twelve votes. A legal oddity among southern states, the ordinance has survived multiple challenges since its ratification in 1880. Despite the law's long history, few are aware of its existence, its original purpose, or its modern consequences. At a time when ..."






On Carpentry
by Dr Thomas Aiello
Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2011 by Lulu.Com
ISBN-13: 978-1-257-09067-9, ISBN: 1-257-09067-4

"HOW TO DEAL WITH CANCER, LOVE, LOSS, ADDICTION, AND DEATH IN THE SOUTH, WITHOUT GOING COMPLETELY BAT-SHIT CRAZY. The more clairvoyant amongst the citizens might have seen the plague coming. The town's street design, after all, told the story: had the roads of Carbondale, Arkansas been the constellation lines between stars, reaching with the stretch of their potholes and paint to the homes of those infected, they would have told the stor ..."



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