Javier Wallace

Duke University, Department of African & African American Studies

Javier Wallace is a Postdoctoral Associate in the African and African American Studies Department at Duke University. He completed his Ph.D. at The University of Texas at Austin. Javier’s research revolves around race, class, gender, labor migration, nationality, and transnationalism of athletes from the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean. Javier's first book project(under contract with Duke University Press), Sueños del Norte: Black Panamanian Hoop Dreams & the Realities of Basketball Trafficking, which explores basketball trafficking in U.S. High School Basketball, was selected as a top topic on Afro-Latin studies part of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI) at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University.Additionally, he is the founder of Black Austin Tours and the co-founder of the social entrepreneurial projects—AfroLatinx Travel and BlackPackas.

 

Research Interests: Basketball trafficking; Black & AfroLatinx issues