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  • 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 ...
    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. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Return of the King

    The Rebirth of Muhammad Ali and the Rise of Atlanta

    by Thomas Aiello ...
    Return of the King tells the story of Muhammad Ali’s return to the ring in 1970, after a more than three-year suspension for refusing his draft notice as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. With Ali’s career still in doubt, he found new support in shifting public opinion about the war and in Atlanta, a city still governed by white supremacy, but a white supremacy decidedly different ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt

    Kinderlou Camp and Misdemeanor Convict Leasing in Georgia

    by Thomas Aiello ...
    Uncovering a little-known system of bound labor in the post-Reconstruction SouthAfter the constitutional end to slavery in the United States, southern white landowners replaced labor by enslaved people with systems of bound labor in which people worked to pay off debts or legal fines. Through the story of a labor camp in Georgia, Thomas Aiello takes a close look at the Deep South’s dependence on ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Mary Turner and the Mob

    The Brooks-Lowndes Race Riot of 1918 in History and Memory

    by Thomas Aiello ...
    A reinterpretation of one of America's most notorious lynchingsThe 1918 lynching of Mary Turner by a white mob in Brooks County, Georgia, is remembered and studied mainly because of the horror of an allegedly pregnant woman's murder. In Mary Turner and the Mob, author Thomas Aiello asserts that the gruesome details of Turner's execution have distracted historians from investigating the larger ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Dixieball

    Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947–1979

    by Thomas Aiello ...
    Series series Sport & Popular Culture
    In Dixieball, Thomas Aiello considers the cultural function of professional basketball in the Deep South between 1947 and 1979. Making a strong case for the role of race in this process, Aiello ties the South’s initial animus toward basketball to the same complex that motivated the region to sacrifice its own economic interests to the cause of white supremacy. Fans of basketball, as compared to ... Read more

    $26.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved

    The Glue-Sniffing Epidemic of the 1960s

    by Thomas Aiello ...
    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 ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration

    The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate

    by Thomas Aiello ...
    Series series Print Culture in the South
    This book’s predecessor, The Grapevine of the Black South, emphasized the owners of the Atlanta Daily World and its operation of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate between 1931 and 1955. In a pragmatic effort to avoid racial confrontation developing from white fear, newspaper editors developed a practical radicalism that argued on the fringes of racial hegemony, saving their loudest vitriol for tyranny ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Bayou Classic

    The Grambling-Southern Football Rivalry

    by Thomas Aiello ...
    The annual clash in New Orleans between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars represents the fiercest and most anticipated in-state football rivalry in Louisiana. The most significant national game to feature historically black colleges and universities is more than a contest; the Bayou Classic is a lavish event, featuring celebrities, a fan festival, and a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hoops

    A Cultural History of Basketball in America

    by Thomas Aiello ...
    Series series American Ways
    From its early days as a sport to build “muscular Christianity” among young men flooding nineteenth-century cities to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. It grew through high school gymnasiums, college pep rallies, and the fits and starts of professionalization. It was a playground game, an urban game, tied to all of the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Trouble in Room 519

    Money, Matricide, and Marginal Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century

    by Thomas Aiello ...
    At approximately seven o’clock in the evening on May 7, 1950, Gordon Malherbe Hillman filled an empty bottle with water, capped it, and walked into his mother’s room in the pair’s fifth-floor suite at Boston’s luxurious Copley Plaza Hotel. He then edged up behind the semi-invalid woman and bludgeoned her to death. Hotel staff had planned to evict the two the following day after several weeks of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • New Orleans Sports

    Playing Hard in the Big Easy

    by Thomas Aiello ...
    Series series Sport, Culture, and Society
    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 ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Jim Crow’s Last Stand

    Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana

    by Thomas Aiello ...
    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 ... Read more

    $18.99 USD