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

Event time: 
Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 3:00pm
Location: 
WLH 309 See map
100 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Thursday, November 10, 3pm - WLH 309. The Committee on Canadian Studies at the MacMillan Center presents Iyko Day, Mount Holyoke College - Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism. Iyko Day is Associate Professor of English and Critical Social Thought at Mount Holyoke College. Her research focuses on the intersection of Asian racialization, Indigeneity, and settler colonialism in North America. Her book, Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism (Duke UP, 2016), retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with capitalism and the racialization of Asian immigrants in Canada and the United States.
 

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public