- 201 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
Tito is a Black Panamanian teenager whose hoop dreams include 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 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.
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Publisher
Duke University Press BooksYear
2025Print ISBN
9781478032809, 9781478029342eBook ISBN
9781478061557Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Centrobasket and English: The Importance of English in US Basketball Recruitment
- 2. Chombo: Language, Race, and Black (In)visibility in Panama
- 3. Los Becados: The Dangers of Racialized Colonial Discourse
- 4. Unregulated Relationships: The Use and Abuse of the F-1 Student Visa in US High School Basketball
- 5. Ineligible: New Rules, New Relationships
- 6. Illegal Hoop Dreams: The Il/legibility of the Il/legality of Being a Noncitizen Black Male Basketball Trafficking Victim
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Implications and Recommendations
- References
- Index