Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams (Paperback)
by Javier Wallace
Description
In Basketball Trafficking, Javier Wallace follows Tito's journey from international tournaments and high school to his near deportation, exposing the underbelly of the basketball pipeline that stretches across borders. Wallace situates Tito's experience within a broader framework of anti-Blackness, labor exploitation, and the unchecked power of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and US immigration system. Tito's story is more than a sports story--it is an urgent account of the policing and manipulation of Black male athletic labor for institutional profit. Prompting readers to consider how the global athletic industrial complex extracts and discards Black labor, Wallace demands that readers see young Black athletes like Tito not just as bodies for entertainment but as human beings whose dreams, struggles, and lives matter.
About the Author
Javier Wallace is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program of Education at Duke University.
Product Details
Category: Nonfiction, Education, Sports
Language: English
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: New
ISBN-10: 1478032804
ISBN-13: 978-1478032809
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date Published: November 11, 2025
Pages: 200
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