{"product_id":"alien-capital-9780822360797","title":"Alien Capital","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAlien Capital\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ikyo Day’s book will take its place amongst important work that theorizes, historicizes and offers a way to speak to the intersections of capitalism, white supremacy, settler colonialism, and migration in white settler contexts.\" -- Kevin Bruyneel * Theory \u0026amp; Event *\u003cbr\u003e\"Day deftly 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. . . . [A] valuable resource.\" -- Sumiko Braun * Amerasia Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAlien Capital\u003c\/i\u003e is a persuasive and thought-provoking study, challenging scholars to rethink historical interpretations of settler colonialism, immigration, labor, and race in North America.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Allan E. S. Lumba * Western Historical Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e“Insightful, intersectional cultural criticism.... I highly recommend \u003ci\u003eAlien Capital\u003c\/i\u003e for Native American and Indigenous studies scholars with an interest in settler-colonialism, critical ethnic studies, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, visual cultures, and literature.” -- Beenash Jafri * Native American and Indigenous Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAlien Capital\u003c\/i\u003e . . . puts forward a much-needed account that unwaveringly reformulates the terms through which settler colonialism might be examined and contested from an Asian diasporic perspective.” -- Szu Shen * Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas *\u003cbr\u003e\"Day offers us a new way of understanding how settler colonialism capitalism articulates race and provides new analytical tools for pushing forward settler colonial studies, cultural studies, and Asian American Studies.\" -- Faye Caronan * Pacific Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Day’s work provides a valuable look at settler colonialism and its ramifications for the East Asian peoples of Canada and the United States.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Diana L. Ahmad * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAlien Capital\u003c\/i\u003e offers a necessary and deeply welcome investigation into the intersections of race, indigeneity, and white settler colonialism.\" -- Lily Cho * English Studies in Canada *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The New Jews: Settler Colonialism and the Personification of Capitalism  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Sex, Time, and the Transcontinental Railroad: Abstract Labor and the Queer Temporalities of History 2  41\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Unnatural Landscapes: Romantic Anticapitalism and Alien Degeneracy  73\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Japanese Internment and the Mutation of Labor  115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The New Ninteteenth Century: Neoliberal Borders, the City, and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism  151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. The Revenge of the Iron Chink  191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes 199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Credits  243","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406093918551,"sku":"9780822360797","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822360797.jpg?v=1730494504","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/alien-capital-9780822360797","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}