Title Alien capital : Asian racialization and the logic of settler colonial capitalism / Iyko Day

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Sex, time, and the transcontinental railroad: abstract labor and the queer temporalities of history -- Unnatural landscapes: romantic anticapitalism and alien degeneracy -- Japanese internment and the mutation of labor -- The new nineteenth century: neoliberal borders, the city, and the logic of settler colonial capitalism -- The revenge of the Iron Chink Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Capitalism -- Social aspects -- North America -- History Asians -- Race identity -- North America Asians -- North America -- Public opinion Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- North America BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies. Asians -- Public opinion Capitalism -- Social aspects Race relations -- Economic aspects Stereotypes (Social psychology) SUBJECT North America -- Race relations -- Economic aspects Subject North America Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822374527 0822374528

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