As a new book 'Black Arsenal' shows, the Gunners have created a remarkably diverse fanbase in north London and beyond
As a new book 'Black Arsenal' shows, the Gunners have created a remarkably diverse fanbase in north London and beyondsurged to a 4-1 pre-season victory over the German champions Bayer Leverkusen in early August, it came against the backdrop of turbocharged
He wrote his new book, firstly, because everyone on the black working class estate where he grew up was an Arsenal fan. The main way to interact at the barbershop was to talk about Arsenal and Ian Wright as the gateway to other forms of black cultural expression. The book itself is a painstakingly researched collection of contributions and portraiture spanning 28 chapters from Arsenal-following peers in academia, former players such as Paul Davis and Wright as well as popular figures from the wider community, including
But what was so special about Arsenal? To interrogate that, Nwonka says we need to go back to a time when the relationship between blackness and Englishness was still seriously contested. On a wider level, those personal experiences seem to grow. In his chapter, the photographer Eddie Otchere remembers his love for the Jungle genre and Arsenal intersecting in the form of M-Beat and General Levi’s, whose music video depicts a young boy dancing in the 1993 Arsenal away kit. The same year the song was “everywhere” at carnival as well as achieving mainstream success, he writes.
Nwonka said the reaction spoke to what was expected of Arsenal, who have a rich history of blooding players of black origin such as Rachel Yankey, Alex Scott and Anita Asante during the nascent beginnings on the road to professionalisation.
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