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  • 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

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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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

  • 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

  • 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

    $26.69 USD

  • 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

  • Paul Morphy

    The Pride and Sorrow of Chess

    by David Lawson ...
    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Jim Crow’s Last Stand

    Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana

    by Thomas Aiello ...
    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 ... Read more

    $18.99 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

    $42.29 USD

  • The Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath

    Edited by Thomas Aiello ...
    In 1963, at the height of the southern civil rights movement, Cecil Brathwaite (1936–2014), under the pseudonym Cecil Elombe Brath, published a satire of Black leaders entitled Color Us Cullud! The American Negro Leadership Official Coloring Book. The book pillories a variety of Black leaders—from political figures like Adam Clayton Powell and Whitney Young to civil rights activists like Martin ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Routledge History of Police Brutality in America

    Edited by Thomas Aiello ...
    Series series Routledge Histories
    This handbook offers a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of police brutality in US history and the variety of ways it has manifested itself.Police brutality has been a defining controversy of the modern age, brought into focus most readily by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the mass protests that occurred as a result in 2020. However, the problem of police brutality has ... Read more

    $70.99 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

    $23.89 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