Presented by Penn English's Latitudes Working Group

In this talk, Professor Iyko Day will share part of a new project on anti-Asian violence in the era of deindustrialization. The talk will extend her arguments from her first book, Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism, to focus on the Asian American professional managerial class and logistical capitalism. 

Iyko Day is Elizabeth C. Small Professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Department of Critical Race and Political Economy at Mount Holyoke College. Day is the author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2016), and her essays have appeared in American Quarterly, Amerasia, Monthly Review, and PMLA as well as magazines such as Art Forum and Brooklyn Rail. She has coedited special issues for Critical Ethnic Studies journal, including "Palestine After Analogy" (9.1), and has edited forums in Verge: Studies in Global Asias and Environment and Planing D: Society and Space. She currently coedits the book series Critical Race, Indignity, and Relationally for Temple University Press and is a member of the Critical Ethnic Studies editorial collective. Her current research focuses on Marxist theory, colonial racial capitalism, and the visual culture of logistics.