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Javier Wallace @ProfJWallace

PhD @UTAustin BS/MS @FAMU_1887 🏈🐍 #BasketballTrafficking Race and Sport in Latin America @afrolatinotrav & Black Austin Tours #Panama #Texas

Joined October 2017
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Check my latest essay, Lost in Translation: Reverted Black Panamanian Sporting Networks in @SCquarterly. I LOVE this essay because it's about the people that gave me life. #HBCUs southerncultures.org/article


Lost in Translation

“We would play tennis even after they turned off the lights on the courts,” my father told me, as he reflected on his days in the Panama Canal Zone (PCZ). Tennis became their sport; my father


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It's about how Black Panamanians and Black Americans created athletic pipelines at #HBCUs in the 20th Century.
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Let me know if you have issues accessing the essay
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Matti Steinitz@MattiSteinitz
13 Apr 2023
In the 60s & 70s, Panamanian activist Carlos Russell got involved in the African American freedom struggle & founded Black Solidarity Day. My article on his trajectory as a "Hemispheric Ambassador of Black Power" between New York and Panama is now online: academia.edu/100146216/Hemis

Carlos Russell interviews Malcolm X for The Liberator, May 1964

ALT Carlos Russell interviews Malcolm X for The Liberator, May 1964

Brooklyn’s representative to the New York State Assembly Al Vann (left) and Carlos Russell (middle) with Jesse Jackson (right) during his first presidential campaign in 1984

ALT Brooklyn’s representative to the New York State Assembly Al Vann (left) and Carlos Russell (middle) with Jesse Jackson (right) during his first presidential campaign in 1984

Carlos Russell with Shirley Chisholm during her 1972 campaign to become the first black woman to run for president.

ALT Carlos Russell with Shirley Chisholm during her 1972 campaign to become the first black woman to run for president.

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These are SOME of the names of enslaved individuals who were buried in San Fernando Cathedral, in San Antonio, Texas. San Fernando was founded in 1731. Source: San Fernando Church Burials, 1761-1808. Transcribed and translated by John O. Leal. List complied by Javier Wallace
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These names do not included persons listed of African descent that were not categorized as enslaved. We are going over this in our @AfroLatinoTrav Primavera Negra workshop starting next week eventbrite.com/e/primavera-n


Primavera Negra: Black Latin American History & Contemporary Topics

SPECIAL EDITION! Black Latin American Virtual Experience: A FIVE-part course centering Black history & life taught by Black Latin Americans

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I’ve been working on this list of enslaved and non-enslaved Afrodescendants buried in a San Antonio, TX church during Spanish colonial period starting about the 1770s. Can wait disrupt a lot of folks ideas about Black presence in Spanish/Mexican Texas!
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I’ll share parts of the research in our @AfroLatinoTrav Primavera Negra class starting May 1st. Here’s the link eventbrite.com/e/primavera-n


Primavera Negra: Black Latin American History & Contemporary Topics

SPECIAL EDITION! Black Latin American Virtual Experience: A FIVE-part course centering Black history & life taught by Black Latin Americans

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Thanks!!!
Ariana Brown@arianathepoet
13 Apr 2023
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I highly recommend signing up for virtual classes with @DiasporaDash @AfroLatinoTrav and @ProfJWallace. Their combined expertise on Black Latin American history and informative teaching style is EVERYTHING. And their class on Texas/Mexico Entanglements will change your life.
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This thread is everything!! Please read, take note and take action. Mexico is JUST like the U.S. and every other settler colonial nation in the Americas #Period
Ariana Brown@arianathepoet
13 Apr 2023
One of the reasons I don’t romanticize my heritage country in my poems is because Mexico, just like the U.S., is a settler colonial nation founded on genocide, African slavery, and white supremacy. My work asks: what does it mean to tie your cultural identity to violence?
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Foreign NCAA Athletes Are Missing Out on NIL Money Due to Visa Rules <——- The F-1 Student Visa could never work with the multibillion “amateur” sports industry. This was the case before #NIL and is still the case! reason.com/2023/04/03/foreig


Foreign college basketball stars are missing out on endorsement money due to visa rules

College players on student visas face complex barriers when it comes to profiting off their names, images, and likenesses.

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Y’all need to read this thread by @LorienTinuviel . It’s forcing us to reckon with violent history of the Texas Rangers and public memory. We have to give the humanity back to those that were refused in while alive. Thanks for this story!
Refusing to Forget@Refusing2Forget
28 Mar 2023
On or shortly after March 28, 1839, Texas Rangers captured, interrogated, and executed two unnamed men who had escaped slavery, leaving their bodies in what may be a mass grave of ranger victims under what is now @SeguinCityHall Chamber of Commerce parking lot. /1
An illustration of a man with a whip standing next to an African American slave from the novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' by American novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852.Kean Collection / Getty Images. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna24714507]

ALT An illustration of a man with a whip standing next to an African American slave from the novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' by American novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852.Kean Collection / Getty Images. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna24714507]
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Just saw the proof for my essay dropping in @SCquarterly this summer!! Can’t wait to share! Through my father’s story I connect diasporic Black Athletic networks from the former US Panama Canal Zone to #HBCUs. It got pics too!! Y’all be on the lookout
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Erica Rochelle@erlee0217
12 Mar 2023
So happy to meet @ProfJWallace !! He’s such a great person and a great FAMU grad ! Re: @DrKenyattaCavil
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Kate Woodsome@kwoodsome
12 Mar 2023
If you’re @sxsw Monday, come join @jeff_robinson56 @Who_We_Are_19, @cecemeto @TFN, @ProfJWallace and me! We’re talking about Why America is Afraid of its (Black) History. schedule.sxsw.com/2023/event

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What would @sxsw be without Black artists or creators? We are taking this deep dive on this tour!! See y’all there!
kinkofa | digital family history platform@kinkofahq
7 Mar 2023
đŸš¶đŸżJoin @kinkofahq & @ProfJWallace for an East #Austin #BlackHistory Tour. It highlights the unique contributions and little told stories of African American creatives and entrepreneurs throughout Austin’s history. Get tickets here: lu.ma/atxblkhistory #SXSW2023
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kinkofa | digital family history platform@kinkofahq
7 Mar 2023
đŸš¶đŸżJoin @kinkofahq & @ProfJWallace for an East #Austin #BlackHistory Tour. It highlights the unique contributions and little told stories of African American creatives and entrepreneurs throughout Austin’s history. Get tickets here: lu.ma/atxblkhistory #SXSW2023

Walk & Talk | East Austin Black History Tour · Luma

Welcome to SXSW 2023! Join kinkofa x Black Austin Tours for a walking tour highlighting the unique contributions and under told stories of African American


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“Investigators believe a Mexican cartel likely mistook them for Haitian drug smugglers” <— we need to sit right here! This exactly what it means to be Black at the border. It wasn’t national. It was skin deep. Someone needs to say that! amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/06/a


4 US citizens were kidnapped by gunmen in Mexico in case of mistaken identity, US official says |...

Two South Carolina families have identified the four US citizens who were assaulted and kidnapped by gunmen in northeastern Mexico on Friday in what a US official with knowledge of the investigation...

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I was just speaking on this yesterday at @SXSWEDU on w/@worldwalker85. I am routinely thought to be African or Haitian when I’m out because of my dark complexion. Even as an “American” I have to be conscious of how Black ppl are read and treated. I have think beyond “nationality”
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