EAN: 9781529118704

A NEW FORMATION - CALUM JACOBS GEBUNDEN

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK 2022 A New Formation is quite simply one of the most important football
books ever written. What we often like to imagine as the history of football has  for the most
part  been written entirely through the white male gaze. In this collection of essays A New
Formation tells new stories  forgotten stories  undervalued stories  and does so with heart and
humanity and humour. It's our game  as narrated by the people who love it. - Jonathan Liew A
New Formation is an exploration of the unique role that Black British footballers have played
in shaping the beautiful game both on and off the pitch  an inventive and highly original
analysis of the intersections between football and wider Black British culture. A New Formation
is not a book about football and racism. Jacobs and his co-contributors - including authors
Musa Okwonga and Aniefiok Ekpoudom and sports broadcaster Jeanette Kwakye MBE - eschew the
standard frameworks of trauma and oppression that are foisted upon Black narratives and seek to
move beyond discussions of diversity  identity and representation. Featuring interviews with
legendary players such as Ian Wright  Anita Asante and Andy Cole  they draw upon broader social
and cultural history to examine Black footballers in contexts larger than themselves. By
engaging with these subtler connections between football and Black cultural expression  A New
Formation reveals the vibrancy and nuance of contemporary Black life in Britain.

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