This is a singular work that presents the results of a long research process conducted by a Panamanian academic and human rights activist of Afro-descendant origin: Javier Wallace.
The book collects the experiences of several generations of young Afro-Panamanian basketball players who saw their dreams of making it in the competitive world of basketball in the United States collapse when they fell into the hands of "promoters" who run talent trafficking networks.
Javier Wallace, holder of a Ph.D. in History from the University of Austin, Texas, reveals a little-known reality: the intricate and sordid world of the business of trafficking Panamanian players to the United States, whose talents and dreams of triumph end up enriching others, not themselves.
With this book, Dr. Javier Wallace delivers to readers a work on a previously hidden topic: the theft of the dreams of young Afro-Panamanians in the world of basketball in the United States.
BASKETBALL TRAFFICKING: STOLEN BLACK PANAMANIAN DREAMS is the title of a book recently published by the prestigious Duke University Press in the United States.
Another dimension of sport.
Source: La Verdad Panamá.
