Jim Crow's Last Stand(Updated) Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana by ThomasAiello 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 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 ThomasAiello 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 ..."
Dixieball(1st Edition) Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947–1979 (Sports & Popular Culture) by ThomasAiello 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 ThomasAiello, 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 ThomasAiello 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 ..."
New Orleans Sports(1st Edition) Playing Hard in the Big Easy (Sport, Culture, and Society) by ThomasAiello Paperback, 325 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68226-100-2, ISBN: 1-68226-100-X
"New Orleans has long been a city fixated on its own history and culture. Founded in 1718 by the French, transferred to the Spanish in the 1763 Treaty of Paris, and sold to the United States in 1803, the city’s culture, law, architecture, food, music, and language share the influence of all three countries. This cultural mélange also manifests in the city’s approach to sport, where each game is steeped in the city’s history. Tracing that ..."
New Orleans Sports Playing Hard in the Big Easy by ThomasAiello 325 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61075-670-9, ISBN: 1-61075-670-3
"Tracing that history from the early nineteenth century to the present, while also surveying the state of the city’s sports historiography, New Orleans Sports places sport in the context of race relations, politics, and civic and business ..."
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: W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate That Shaped the Course of Civil Rights by ThomasAiello 576 Pages, Published 2016 by Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-1-4408-4358-7, ISBN: 1-4408-4358-9
"Chapter 3 of Souls. See above. 14. Jenkin Lloyd Jones was the editor of a
Chicago magazine called Unity. He was at the Ida Wells meeting about Souls of
Black Folk and wrote about it and the book in Unity, 7 May 1903, 148–149. See
below. Wells, 1970, 280–281; and Du Bois, 1973, 55. 15. Dr. Charles E. Bentley
was an influential Chicago dentist, the leading black dentist in Illinois. Lloyd
Wheeler had been a close associate of Frederi ..."
Jim Crow’s Last Stand Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana by ThomasAiello 215 Pages, Published 2019 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7252-0, ISBN: 0-8071-7252-9
"This updated edition of Jim Crow’s Last Stand unpacks the origins of the statute in Bourbon Louisiana, traces its survival through the civil rights era, and ends with the successful effort to overturn the nonunanimous jury practice, a ..."
"With The Grapevine of the Black South, Thomas Aiello offers the first critical history of this influential newspaper syndicate, from its roots in the 1930s through its end in the 1950s."
"Transatlantic historians are dedicated to analyzing the dynamic process of encounter, interchange, and creolization that was initiated when peoples on different sides of the Atlantic Basin first made contact and continues until the twenty-first century. The forty-ninth annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series --"Currents in Transatlantic Thought"--was organized to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the University of Te ..."