Iyko Day: “Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settle 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.