“I was in graduate school, and I was reading a book called Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism (1999)” says Thomas. “It talked about how Nike went from being a $10 million company when he signed, to being a $10 billion company 20 years later… I was thinking about black bodies. Bodies like his would have been traded on a market at a different period in time. Now when these bodies are traded today, I was thinking about how much money is made from them. So we go from slaves being branded as a sign of ownership, to black bodies today being branded as a way to make money.” In Futbol and Chain, a player leaps into the air while kicking in a moment of athletic determination, only to be dragged down by the shackle and chain of a football.