Thomas Aiello
Biographic Data
| ID | 170107 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Aiello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Aiello |
| SIGNATURE | AIELLO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Valdosta State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2766-0271 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Pig in Pornocrates
Pornocrates (1878) is the most influential work of Belgian artist Félicien Rops. Featuring a naked woman with a blindfold walking behind a tethered pig on a marble floor, the work caused controversy on its first appearance. It has been interpreted by critics and art historians as representing various possibilities. While the evolution of how critics and scholars have interpreted the relationship between woman and pig is important, what none of th…
From Dogs to Frogs: A Summative Content Analysis Spanning Four Decades of Scholarly Contributions to Anthrozoology
Murry R. Nelson, Big Time: The History of Big Ten Basketball, 1972-1992
Anthrozoology as International Practice (AIP): A Student Conference in Animal Studies 2023
Surrealism and the slaughterhouse: Art and animals in Lotar’s La Villette and Franju’s Blood of the Beasts
In the sixth issue of Georges Bataille’s surrealist magazine Documents, published in 1929, a series of photographs by Eli Lotar documented an abattoir in the La Villette section of Paris. In text that accompanied the series, Bataille described the slaughterhouse as ‘a disturbing convergence of the mysteries of myth and the ominous grandeur typical of those places in which blood flows.’ The photographs chronicled both the banality and the horror o…
Members only? A posthuman view of otherthanhuman-animal immigrants across human-defined borders
The movement of otherthanhuman-animals (henceforth OTHA) across human-defined borders are often categorised depending upon human-assigned categories such as ‘invasive’, ‘introduced’, ‘non-native’ or ‘migrating’. However, there is a paucity of literature categorising OTHAs, from a posthuman, anthrozoological view, as immigrants. This paper examines, through the dual lenses of posthumanism and anthrozoology, five scenarios for OTHA immigrants. Firs…
Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Player
Oscar Charleston was the best Black ballplayer of the 1920s and one of the best in the 1930s. When his career is taken in total, he was one of the most accomplished baseball players of any race and any decade. For students of the Negro Leagues, Charleston’s success is a known commodity but, as Jeremy Beer explains in the first comprehensive biography of the star, outside of that particular bubble, and even in the broader baseball world, Charlesto…
Nonhuman Animals as Symbols in the #BlackLivesMatter Protests of 2020
Racial uprisings often include animalized commentary and symbolic use of nonhuman animal bodies. This paper highlights some of the nonhuman animal bodies observed during the #BlackLivesMatter protests within the United States in 2020 – specifically, the use of pig, horse, and dog bodies during street protests. Displays of pigs carry with them a racially rife past in the United States. This history harmed protesters during #BlackLivesMatter protes…
Portrayals of Animals in Covid-19 News Media
With animals as the primary and intermediary vectors of COVID-19, we sought to understand the ways in which animals were represented in UK news media during the emergence of the global pandemic and how these portrayals impact the lives of humans and animals. Using the Lexis-Nexis online media archive, we searched for news media reports featuring animals during the emergence of COVID-19 in the UK from the period January–October 2020. We analyzed a…
The Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath
Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York
Early twentieth-century New York was geographically far from the Jim Crow South, but the city carried with it many of the tropes of Redeemer thinking. Despite progressive nineteenth-century civil rights laws designed to provide a measure of freedom to Black New York residents, a version of segregation existed, limiting the movement of Black bodies through the city's neighborhoods and class stratifications. Progressive reform, meanwhile, built on …
Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South
Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South, a new collection curated by Amy Louise Wood and Natalie J. Ring, complicates broader narratives of mass incarceration that have captured the popular imagination because those narratives have largely centered on urban industrial hubs outside of the South. James Forman Jr.'s Locking Up Our Own (2017) managed a similar complication by evaluating the role of the black electorate and the problem of good inte…
“Not Too Far Removed from Slavery”: Police Brutality and Rights Activism in Valdosta, Georgia, 1945–55
The historiography of police brutality usually frames the phenomenon in urban settings, one that has existed since the first police forces of the antebellum period and was given its ultimate succor in the development of ethnic enclaves policed by white cops in the throes of the Great Migration and proliferating in the aftermath of World War II. This analysis interprets police brutality as a function of the structure and culture of policing. The v…
Louis Lomax's Relationship with Malcolm X and Its Role in the Evolution of the Nation of Islam's Popularity and Lomax's Philosophy
Sambo’s Boys: The Rise and Fall of the New Orleans Jazz, 1974–79
The New Orleans Jazz was founded by California restaurant owner Sam Battistone, whose chain of restaurants known as Sambo’s featured racist iconography in its establishments. Race too undoubtedly played a role in the demise of the Jazz, as it had in the dismantling of the Atlanta Hawks after its move from St. Louis, but such was not the team’s principal failing. Neither had race been the principal failing of the city’s American Basketball Associa…
Do We Have Any Men to Follow in Her Footsteps?”: The Black Southern Press and the Fight for Teacher Salary Equalization
The black southern press was an entity dominated by male editors and entrepreneurs. The effort to equalize teacher pay, one of the core fights for rights in the South, and the principal effort at gendered race advocacy during the World War II era, was led in large measure by black women. While both the fight for salary equalization and the survival of the black press depended upon segregation to maintain their survival, those newspapers were enti…
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
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 economic …
If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Donald Spivey's “If You Were Only White” claims that its greatest concern is restoring the contributions of Leroy “Satchel” Paige to the public mind. It argues that the life and legacy of Paige was the foundation upon which the careers of players such as Jackie Robinson were built. Since, however, those initially drawn to this book will already understand those realities prior to opening it, Spivey's ability to move beyond the bar established by …
Joe Louis: Hard Times Man
Through the economic decay of the 1930s and 1940s, through Jim Crow racism, through the national frustration with the shelled husk of American life and a vague national ideal barricaded against the encroaching hoard of fascism, there was Joe Louis. Randy Roberts's impeccable new biography of Louis and his sport provides a necessary new account of Louis's role as connective tissue for the frayed ends of his age. In Roberts's hands, Louis is neithe…
Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s
Reviewed by: Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s Thomas Aiello (bio) Bradley, Stefan M. Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2009. In 1626, the Dutch bought Manhattan from the Lanape Indians for a cool twenty–four dollars. Three hundred and forty–two years later, the residents of Morningside Heights and Harlem avoided a similar land grab by yet another gr…
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Naacp and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement by Patricia Sullivan
The Man Plague: Disco, the Lucifer Myth, and the Theology of “It's Raining Men”
The Heritage Fallacy: Race, Loyalty, and the First Grambling-Southern Football Game
The lost cause of the Civil War has never really gotten out of our souls. Football, with all of its battle-related language, has long been an expression of our Southern militarism. —David Sansing, white Southerner, former director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi In the East, college football is a cultural exercise ... On the West Coast, it is a tourist attraction ...In the Midwest, it is cannibalism ... …
The Fading of the Greys: Black Baseball and Historical Memory in Little Rock
HISTORY IS NOT WRITTEN BY WINNERS. It's written about them. And if the quality of victory is measured by the volume of such writing, southern black baseball in the first half of the twentieth century is a compendium of loss. The stifling consequences of segregation colluded, with some notable exceptions, to keep various southern leagues decidedly minor. Some of these black teams survive in historical memory; others are well nigh forgotten-their r…
Portrayals of Animals in Covid-19 News Media
With animals as the primary and intermediary vectors of COVID-19, we sought to understand the ways in which animals were represented in UK news media during the emergence of the global pandemic and how these portrayals impact the lives of humans and animals. Using the Lexis-Nexis online media archive, we searched for news media reports featuring animals during the emergence of COVID-19 in the UK from the period January–October 2020. We analyzed a…
Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South
Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South, a new collection curated by Amy Louise Wood and Natalie J. Ring, complicates broader narratives of mass incarceration that have captured the popular imagination because those narratives have largely centered on urban industrial hubs outside of the South. James Forman Jr.'s Locking Up Our Own (2017) managed a similar complication by evaluating the role of the black electorate and the problem of good inte…
The Heritage Fallacy: Race, Loyalty, and the First Grambling-Southern Football Game
The lost cause of the Civil War has never really gotten out of our souls. Football, with all of its battle-related language, has long been an expression of our Southern militarism. —David Sansing, white Southerner, former director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi In the East, college football is a cultural exercise ... On the West Coast, it is a tourist attraction ...In the Midwest, it is cannibalism ... …
The Fading of the Greys: Black Baseball and Historical Memory in Little Rock
HISTORY IS NOT WRITTEN BY WINNERS. It's written about them. And if the quality of victory is measured by the volume of such writing, southern black baseball in the first half of the twentieth century is a compendium of loss. The stifling consequences of segregation colluded, with some notable exceptions, to keep various southern leagues decidedly minor. Some of these black teams survive in historical memory; others are well nigh forgotten-their r…
Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s
Reviewed by: Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s Thomas Aiello (bio) Bradley, Stefan M. Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2009. In 1626, the Dutch bought Manhattan from the Lanape Indians for a cool twenty–four dollars. Three hundred and forty–two years later, the residents of Morningside Heights and Harlem avoided a similar land grab by yet another gr…
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Naacp and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement by Patricia Sullivan
The Man Plague: Disco, the Lucifer Myth, and the Theology of “It's Raining Men”
The Heritage Fallacy: Race, Loyalty, and the First Grambling-Southern Football Game
The lost cause of the Civil War has never really gotten out of our souls. Football, with all of its battle-related language, has long been an expression of our Southern militarism. —David Sansing, white Southerner, former director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi In the East, college football is a cultural exercise ... On the West Coast, it is a tourist attraction ...In the Midwest, it is cannibalism ... …
Joe Louis: Hard Times Man
Through the economic decay of the 1930s and 1940s, through Jim Crow racism, through the national frustration with the shelled husk of American life and a vague national ideal barricaded against the encroaching hoard of fascism, there was Joe Louis. Randy Roberts's impeccable new biography of Louis and his sport provides a necessary new account of Louis's role as connective tissue for the frayed ends of his age. In Roberts's hands, Louis is neithe…
If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Donald Spivey's “If You Were Only White” claims that its greatest concern is restoring the contributions of Leroy “Satchel” Paige to the public mind. It argues that the life and legacy of Paige was the foundation upon which the careers of players such as Jackie Robinson were built. Since, however, those initially drawn to this book will already understand those realities prior to opening it, Spivey's ability to move beyond the bar established by …
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
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 economic …
Sambo’s Boys: The Rise and Fall of the New Orleans Jazz, 1974–79
The New Orleans Jazz was founded by California restaurant owner Sam Battistone, whose chain of restaurants known as Sambo’s featured racist iconography in its establishments. Race too undoubtedly played a role in the demise of the Jazz, as it had in the dismantling of the Atlanta Hawks after its move from St. Louis, but such was not the team’s principal failing. Neither had race been the principal failing of the city’s American Basketball Associa…
Do We Have Any Men to Follow in Her Footsteps?”: The Black Southern Press and the Fight for Teacher Salary Equalization
The black southern press was an entity dominated by male editors and entrepreneurs. The effort to equalize teacher pay, one of the core fights for rights in the South, and the principal effort at gendered race advocacy during the World War II era, was led in large measure by black women. While both the fight for salary equalization and the survival of the black press depended upon segregation to maintain their survival, those newspapers were enti…
“Not Too Far Removed from Slavery”: Police Brutality and Rights Activism in Valdosta, Georgia, 1945–55
The historiography of police brutality usually frames the phenomenon in urban settings, one that has existed since the first police forces of the antebellum period and was given its ultimate succor in the development of ethnic enclaves policed by white cops in the throes of the Great Migration and proliferating in the aftermath of World War II. This analysis interprets police brutality as a function of the structure and culture of policing. The v…
Louis Lomax's Relationship with Malcolm X and Its Role in the Evolution of the Nation of Islam's Popularity and Lomax's Philosophy
Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South
Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South, a new collection curated by Amy Louise Wood and Natalie J. Ring, complicates broader narratives of mass incarceration that have captured the popular imagination because those narratives have largely centered on urban industrial hubs outside of the South. James Forman Jr.'s Locking Up Our Own (2017) managed a similar complication by evaluating the role of the black electorate and the problem of good inte…
The Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath
Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York
Early twentieth-century New York was geographically far from the Jim Crow South, but the city carried with it many of the tropes of Redeemer thinking. Despite progressive nineteenth-century civil rights laws designed to provide a measure of freedom to Black New York residents, a version of segregation existed, limiting the movement of Black bodies through the city's neighborhoods and class stratifications. Progressive reform, meanwhile, built on …
Members only? A posthuman view of otherthanhuman-animal immigrants across human-defined borders
The movement of otherthanhuman-animals (henceforth OTHA) across human-defined borders are often categorised depending upon human-assigned categories such as ‘invasive’, ‘introduced’, ‘non-native’ or ‘migrating’. However, there is a paucity of literature categorising OTHAs, from a posthuman, anthrozoological view, as immigrants. This paper examines, through the dual lenses of posthumanism and anthrozoology, five scenarios for OTHA immigrants. Firs…
Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Player
Oscar Charleston was the best Black ballplayer of the 1920s and one of the best in the 1930s. When his career is taken in total, he was one of the most accomplished baseball players of any race and any decade. For students of the Negro Leagues, Charleston’s success is a known commodity but, as Jeremy Beer explains in the first comprehensive biography of the star, outside of that particular bubble, and even in the broader baseball world, Charlesto…
Nonhuman Animals as Symbols in the #BlackLivesMatter Protests of 2020
Racial uprisings often include animalized commentary and symbolic use of nonhuman animal bodies. This paper highlights some of the nonhuman animal bodies observed during the #BlackLivesMatter protests within the United States in 2020 – specifically, the use of pig, horse, and dog bodies during street protests. Displays of pigs carry with them a racially rife past in the United States. This history harmed protesters during #BlackLivesMatter protes…
Portrayals of Animals in Covid-19 News Media
With animals as the primary and intermediary vectors of COVID-19, we sought to understand the ways in which animals were represented in UK news media during the emergence of the global pandemic and how these portrayals impact the lives of humans and animals. Using the Lexis-Nexis online media archive, we searched for news media reports featuring animals during the emergence of COVID-19 in the UK from the period January–October 2020. We analyzed a…
Surrealism and the slaughterhouse: Art and animals in Lotar’s La Villette and Franju’s Blood of the Beasts
In the sixth issue of Georges Bataille’s surrealist magazine Documents, published in 1929, a series of photographs by Eli Lotar documented an abattoir in the La Villette section of Paris. In text that accompanied the series, Bataille described the slaughterhouse as ‘a disturbing convergence of the mysteries of myth and the ominous grandeur typical of those places in which blood flows.’ The photographs chronicled both the banality and the horror o…
Murry R. Nelson, Big Time: The History of Big Ten Basketball, 1972-1992
Anthrozoology as International Practice (AIP): A Student Conference in Animal Studies 2023
From Dogs to Frogs: A Summative Content Analysis Spanning Four Decades of Scholarly Contributions to Anthrozoology
The Pig in Pornocrates
Pornocrates (1878) is the most influential work of Belgian artist Félicien Rops. Featuring a naked woman with a blindfold walking behind a tethered pig on a marble floor, the work caused controversy on its first appearance. It has been interpreted by critics and art historians as representing various possibilities. While the evolution of how critics and scholars have interpreted the relationship between woman and pig is important, what none of th…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · History (10 works) · Race, History, and American Society (10 works) · Law (9 works) · American Sports and Literature (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Art history (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)