Day Alien Capital

Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7452-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Day, Iyko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

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

Über Autor(innen)

Iyko Day is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College.