Javier Wallace is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program of Education at Duke University.
Description
"Basketball Trafficking provides an intimate look at the complex relationship between basketball players, coaches, parents, and mentors in the highs and lows of creating pipelines of opportunities for young Black men in Panama seeking to pursue their hoop dreams in the United States. It also powerfully sounds the alarm on the need to protect young international student athletes who due to anti-Black citizenship and immigration policies are too often viewed as disposable players rather than young people vulnerable to victimization and abuse." - Kaysha Corinealdi, author of Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century