Basketball Trafficking

Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams

Javier Wallace (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3280-9 (ISBN)

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Tito is a Black Panamanian teenager with dreams of playing in the NBA. When a private high school in Texas recruits him under the guise of an athletic scholarship, he believes he’s one step closer. Instead, he becomes entangled in a system that exploits young Black athletes through the F-1 Student Visa program. 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 NCAA 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 not just as bodies for entertainment, but as human beings whose dreams, struggles, and lives matter.

Javier Wallace is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program of Education at Duke University.

Introduction 1
1. Centrobasket and English: The Importance of English in US Basketball Recruitment 23
2. Chombo: Language, Race, and Black (In)visibility in Panama 47
3. Los Becados: The Dangers of Racialized Colonial Discourse 71
4. Unregulated Relationships: The Use and Abuse of the F-1 Student Visa in US High School Basketball 91
5. Ineligible: New Rules, New Relationships 117
6. Illegal Hoop Dreams: The I/legibility of the I/legality of Being a Noncitizen Black Male Basketball Trafficking Victim 133
Conclusion 161
Appendix: Implications and Recommendations 169
References 175
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2025
Zusatzinfo	9 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-3280-4 / 1478032804
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-3280-9 / 9781478032809
Zustand	Neuware