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 ..."
Hoops A Cultural History of Basketball in America (American Ways) by ThomasAiello Hardcover, 304 Pages, 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 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."
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 ..."
Hoops A Cultural History of Basketball in America by ThomasAiello 305 Pages, Published 2022 by Rowman & Littlefield ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-4856-3, ISBN: 1-5381-4856-0
"This book presents the first cultural history of the sport from the street to the highest levels of professional mens and womens competition, chronicling the relationship between the sport and American society."
"Ultimately, this volume captures and restores a unique perspective on the civil rights movement often omitted from the historiography but vital to understanding its full scope."
"In this biography, Thomas Aiello traces the complicated and fascinating arc of Lomax's life and career, showing how the contradictions, tumult, and inconsistencies that marked his life reflected those of 1960s America."
"Ultimately, this volume captures and restores a unique perspective on the civil rights movement often omitted from the historiography but vital to understanding its full scope."
The Trouble in Room 519 Money, Matricide, and Marginal Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century by ThomasAiello 229 Pages, Published 2021 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7598-9, ISBN: 0-8071-7598-6
"Mounting debts had finally broken the fifty-year-old Hillman, a now-struggling author of mixed success, but it had not always been that way, as Thomas Aiello shows in his study of the life and work of this forgotten midcentury figure."
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 ..."
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 Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath (Paperback or Softback) by ThomasAiello Paperback, Published 2021 by University Press Of Mississippi, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-3537-6, ISBN: 1-4968-3537-9