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Club, Culture and the City: Book Launch of Black Arsenal

31 October 2024, 4:45 pm–6:00 pm

Black Arsenal book cover

Discover how Arsenal Football Club has become central to modern Black identity by celebrating the launch of a stunning new book by Dr Clive Chijoke Nwonka, Associate Professor at UCL, on Arsenal and Black culture with some very special guests.

Event Information

Open to

All

Organiser

Bartlett Faculty

Location

6.05
22 Gordon St
London
WC1H 0QB

Arsenal Football Club has come to be understood as the locus of everyday Black identification through its historic association not just with Black London, but Black identities globally. Launching the stunning new book, Black Arsenal: Club, Culture and Identity, this book draws on a number of perspectives through the optics of film and television, sociology, geography, gender, and cultural studies, from former players and prominent fans and from the world of music, fashion, journalism and popular culture, to reflect on the ways in which Arsenal as a club and a culture has been central to the development of both multicultural London and Black British identity.

Please note this event is first-come, first-served and is limited capacity. 

About the Speaker

Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka

Associate Professor in Film, Culture and Society and Faculty Associate in the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre. at School of European Languages, Culture and Society – Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (SELCS-CMII)

Nwonka’s scholarship broadly centres on race and the humanities. His research is focused on the study of Black film, culture and identity, with a particular focus on the modes through which Black identities are shape by representations of Black identity, the political economy of Black cultural politics, Black aesthetics, and the hegemony of neoliberalism within forms of Black popular culture. In addition, he has published extensively on racial inequality in the creative industries and ‘diversity’ policy frameworks that are equally born from broader political discourses on race, racism and cultural difference. Thus, Dr Nwonka’s research is interdisciplinary and spans across Film Studies, literature, Cultural Studies, Black Studies and Sociology.

More about Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka