Angry white people : coming face-to-face with the British far right / Hsiao-Hung Pai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pai, Hsiao-Hung, author.

Contributor:

Zephaniah, Benjamin

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right-wing extremists--Great Britain.

Right-wing extremists.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xviii, 382 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Zed Books, [2016]

Summary:

Across North America and Europe voices of intolerance and bigotry can be increasingly heard, often spilling over into street protests and encouraged by demagogic politicians. In this fantastically daring book, Hsiao-Hung Pai, an 'inscrutable foreigner', follows a group of individuals caught up in a wave of far-right street movements in the UK. Among those who Pai gets in with are Darren, who took part in the formation of the English Defence League only to leave two years later; an activist nicknamed Viking, who once occupied a cathedral in order to assert his right to carry a sword; and the infamous Tommy Robinson, founder of the EDL, whom Pai saw change from a young, foul-mouthed lad to a well-received, suited-and-booted Oxford Union guest speaker. Delving into the day-to-day lives of tar-right activists, and the marginalized communities around them, Pai reveals that their ideas are not an aberration in modern society; on the contrary, not only are they very much a part of it but they are constantly rejuvenated and mainstreamed by the media and powers that be. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Born and Bred Here 1

2 Defending the Imaginary Nation 65

3 The Story of Bury Park 111

4 'The EDL Cannot Survive Here' 151

5 The Changing Faces of the Radical Right 193

6 The Colours of British Racism 235

7 The New Outsiders 287.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781783606924

1783606924

OCLC:

919483023