Loud and proud: Passion and politics in the English Defence League (New Ethnograpies MUP) by Hilary Pilkington
English | July 1, 2016 | ISBN: 1784992593 | 271 Pages | PDF | 8 MB
The book uses interviews, informal conversations and extended observation at EDL events to critically reflect on the gap between the movement's public image and activists' own understandings of it. It details how activists construct the EDL, and themselves, as 'not racist, not violent, just no longer silent' inter alia through the exclusion of Muslims as a possible object of racism on the grounds that they are a religiously not racially defined group.