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Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism
Contributor(s): Day, Iyko (Author)

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 ISBN: 0822360799     ISBN-13: 9780822360797
Publisher: Duke University Press
OUR PRICE: $97.80  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 305.895
LCCN: 2015034387
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" L (0.85 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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In Alien Capital Iyko Day retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with capitalism and the racialization of Asian immigrants to Canada and the United States. Day explores how the historical alignment of Asian bodies and labor with capital's abstract and negative dimensions became one of settler colonialism's foundational and defining features. This alignment allowed white settlers to gloss over and expunge their complicity with capitalist exploitation from their collective memory. Day reveals this process through an analysis of a diverse body of Asian North American literature and visual culture, including depictions of Chinese railroad labor in the 1880s, filmic and literary responses to Japanese internment in the 1940s, and more recent examinations of the relations between free trade, national borders, and migrant labor. In highlighting these artists' reworking and exposing of the economic modalities of Asian racialized labor, Day pushes beyond existing approaches to settler colonialism as a Native/settler binary to formulate it as a dynamic triangulation of Native, settler, and alien populations and positionalities.
 
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