Javier Wallace
@ProfJWallace
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PhD @UTAustin BS/MS @FAMU_1887 šš #BasketballTrafficking Race and Sport in Latin America @afrolatinotrav & Black Austin Tours #Panama #Texas
Austin, TX
Joined October 2017
It's about how Black Panamanians and Black Americans created athletic pipelines at #HBCUs in the 20th Century.
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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
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āWe would play tennis even after they turned off the lights on the courts,ā my father told me, as he reflected on his days in the Panama Canal Zone (PCZ). Tennis became their sport; my fatherā¦
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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: https://t.co/D1dUEsvYQO
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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 https://t.co/YuMMPojHtc
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SPECIAL EDITION! Black Latin American Virtual Experience: A FIVE-part course centering Black history & life taught by Black Latin Americans
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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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Iāll share parts of the research in our @AfroLatinoTrav Primavera Negra class starting May 1st. Hereās the link https://t.co/YuMMPokfiK
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SPECIAL EDITION! Black Latin American Virtual Experience: A FIVE-part course centering Black history & life taught by Black Latin Americans
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Iāve 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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Thanks!!!
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
One of the reasons I donāt 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 <āā- The F-1 Student Visa could never work with the multibillion āamateurā sports industry. This was the case before #NIL and is still the case!
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College players on student visas face complex barriers when it comes to profiting off their names, images, and likenesses.
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Yāall need to read this thread by @LorienTinuviel . Itās 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!
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
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Just saw the proof for my essay dropping in @SCquarterly this summer!! Canāt wait to share! Through my fatherās story I connect diasporic Black Athletic networks from the former US Panama Canal Zone to #HBCUs. It got pics too!! Yāall be on the lookout
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So happy to meet @ProfJWallace !! Heās such a great person and a great FAMU grad ! Re: @DrKenyattaCavil
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If youāre @sxsw Monday, come join @jeff_robinson56 @Who_We_Are_19, @cecemeto @TFN, @ProfJWallace and me! Weāre talking about Why America is Afraid of its (Black) History. https://t.co/I4rJTJLkv5
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What would @sxsw be without Black artists or creators? We are taking this deep dive on this tour!! See yāall there!
š¶šæJoin @kinkofahq & @ProfJWallace for an East #Austin #BlackHistory Tour. It highlights the unique contributions and little told stories of African American creatives and entrepreneurs throughout Austinās history. Get tickets here: https://t.co/UlIMw0JXIW
#SXSW2023
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š¶šæJoin @kinkofahq & @ProfJWallace for an East #Austin #BlackHistory Tour. It highlights the unique contributions and little told stories of African American creatives and entrepreneurs throughout Austinās history. Get tickets here: https://t.co/UlIMw0JXIW
#SXSW2023
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Welcome to SXSW 2023! Join kinkofa x Black Austin Tours for a walking tour highlighting the unique contributions and under told stories of African Americanā¦
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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 Iām out because of my dark complexion. Even as an āAmericanā I have to be conscious of how Black ppl are read and treated. I have think beyond ānationalityā
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āInvestigators believe a Mexican cartel likely mistook them for Haitian drug smugglersā <ā we need to sit right here! This exactly what it means to be Black at the border. It wasnāt national. It was skin deep. Someone needs to say that! https://t.co/ai5Ft3JNIk
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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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