Alien Capital - Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism

Informationen zum Autor Iyko Day is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College.  Klappentext Iyko Day is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College.¿In Alien Capital Iyko Day retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with Asian racialization and capitalism, showing how the conflation of Asian immigrants to Canada and the United states with the abstract dimensions of capital became settler colonialism's defining feature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  ix Introduction. The New Jews: Settler Colonialism and the Personification of Capitalism  1 1. Sex, Time, and the Transcontinental Railroad: Abstract Labor and the Queer Temporalities of History 2  41 2. Unnatural Landscapes: Romantic Anticapitalism and Alien Degeneracy  73 3. Japanese Internment and the Mutation of Labor  115 4. The New Ninteteenth Century: Neoliberal Borders, the City, and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism  151 Epilogue. The Revenge of the Iron Chink  191 Notes 199 Bibliography  223 Index  235 Credits  243

Product details

• Authors: Iyko Day
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2016
• EAN: 9780822360797
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6079-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore