《新队形》是有史以来最重要的足球书籍之一。我们通常喜欢想象的足球史，在很大程度上完全是通过白人男性的凝视来书写的。在这本散文集中，一种新的形式讲述了新的故事、被遗忘的故事、被低估的故事，并且用心、人性和幽默地讲述。这是我们的游戏，正如热爱它的人们所说。-刘强生
《新队形》探索了英国黑人足球运动员在球场内外塑造这场美丽比赛中所扮演的独特角色，对足球与更广泛的英国黑人文化之间的交集进行了创造性和高度独创性的分析。
《新队形》不是一本关于足球和种族主义的书。雅各布斯和他的共同撰稿人——包括作家穆萨·奥克旺加和阿涅菲克·埃克普多姆以及体育广播公司珍妮特·克瓦基·姆贝——避开了强加在黑人叙事上的创伤和压迫的标准框架，并寻求超越对多样性、身份和代表性的讨论。他们采访了伊恩·赖特、安妮塔·阿桑特和安迪·科尔等传奇球员，利用更广泛的社会和文化历史，在更大的背景下审视黑人足球运动员。通过足球与黑人文化表达之间的微妙联系，一种新的形态揭示了当代英国黑人生活的活力和微妙之处。
A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game
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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