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

by Iyko Day

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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.

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Published: 2016
Genres: Nonfiction, Anthropology, Economics, History, Literature Studies and Criticism
DDC/MDS: 305.895
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