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US basketball coaches are exploiting Black Latin American youths. Books in brief: Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams, Javier Wallace, by Gavin O'Toole
Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams, Javier Wallace, 2025, Duke University Press
Exploitation assumes many faces in the world of late capitalism, but few are less likely to be recognisable at first sight than that of the humble college basketball coach.
Yet as Javier Wallace points out in this shocking and revelatory journey into what i…