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  • The Routledge History of Police Brutality in America
    Thomas Aiello
    This handbook offers a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of police brutality in US history and the variety of ways it has manifested itself. ...
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    93,28 €

  • Hoops
    Thomas Aiello
    From its 19th-century roots to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. This book presents the first cultural history of the sport from the street to the highest levels of professional men's and women's competition, chronicling the relationship between the sport and American society. ...
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    34,08 €

  • Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration
    Thomas Aiello
    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...
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    50,30 €

  • Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath
    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 act...
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    53,51 €

  • Trouble in Room 519
    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...
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    26,74 €

  • The Life and Times of Louis Lomax
    Thomas Aiello
    Syndicated television and radio host. Serial liar. Pioneering journalist. Convicted criminal. Close ally of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Publicity-seeking provocateur. Louis Lomax’s life was a study in contradiction. In this biography, Thomas Aiello traces the complicated and fascinating arc of Lomax’s life and career, showing how the contradictions, tumult, and inconsi...
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    24,58 €

  • Solemnity
    Thomas Aiello
    Solemnity is, in its way, a love story. It is a vehicle for its narrator to understand the collapse of his relationship and his sanity, an attempt to answer the three questions Abraham Lincoln posed in his first inaugural address:IS IT POSSIBLE, THEN, TO MAKE THAT INTERCOURSE MORE ADVANTAGEOUS OR MORE SATISFACTORY AFTER SEPARATION THAN BEFORE? (yes)CAN ALIENS MAKE TREATIES EASI...
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    31,19 €

  • Jim Crow’s Last Stand
    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&#...
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    26,79 €

  • Grapevine of the Black South
    Thomas Aiello
    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 ha...
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    44,46 €

  • The Tyranny of Architecture
    Thomas Aiello
    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...
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    14,10 €

  • The Devil’s Messages
    Thomas Aiello
    The evolution of American cultural history pivots on those moments, large and small, where definitions break down, where meaning is contested, and a new kind of understanding is created in the bargain. We would be hard pressed to call that evolution progress, as new situational realities are defined by their newness and the situations that create them, but they breed difference...
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    55,76 €

  • On Carpentry
    Thomas Aiello
    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 t...
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    21,09 €

  • Saint Norman
    Thomas Aiello
    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. ...
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    11,63 €

  • Womb of Monsters
    Thomas Aiello
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    17,30 €