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... Chapter 3, “Afro-Asian Adjacencies,” explores the racial figure of the Asian trader and Asian capitalism in colonial, apartheid, and postapartheid South Africa and across Indian Ocean geographies. Drawing on archival research, it examines the racialization of the present-day Chinese trader...

... Asian settler colonialism sojourner Chapter 3, “Afro-Asian Adjacencies,” explores the racial figure of the Asian trader and Asian capitalism in colonial, apartheid, and postapartheid South Africa and across Indian Ocean geographies. Drawing on archival research, it examines the racialization...

... The introduction lays out the book’s focus on Asian racialization and capitalism by analyzing a recent controversy in Canada over the removal of an image of an Asian female scientist from the newly designed one-hundred-dollar bill. The controversy allegorizes the dark side of the Asian-Jewish...

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... in the periphery. Racial capitalism features the racial division of labor of Africans, American Indians, Asians (and Pacific Islanders), and Latinxs. world-system dependency colonialism hegemony migrant labor ...

.... The introduction explains how the reorganization of global consumer capitalism around Asian commodities, consumers, and tastes structurally advantages as well as disadvantages English-speaking Asian personal style bloggers. It further shows how the work context of this new ideal racialized labor force is different...

... Chapter 1 establishes the book’s foundational claim that the economism of Asian racialization arises from a temporal alignment of Chinese bodies with abstract labor, which has implications for what constitutes socially necessary labor time. Analyzing Richard Fung’s Dirty Laundry: A History...

... to the photographs of Tseng Kwong Chi and Jin-me Yoon, the chapter argues that their photographic citations of 1920s- and 1930s-era landscape art parody its investment in whiteness during a heightened period of Asian immigrant restriction. Disidentifying with the settler romanticization of the landscape, Tseng’s...

... Chapter 4 examines the persistent and evolving economism of Asian racialization in the postexclusion era. Turning to Ken Lum’s multimedia works and Karen Tei Yamashita’s novel Tropic of Orange , this chapter tracks their works’ reconceptualizations of labor, migration, urbanism...

... of Georgia Cannery in Steveston, British Columbia, refabricated in Beijing, China) animates its contemporary significance. Examining how Ting’s sculpture recontextualizes the original machine, the epilogue reflects on the aesthetic and biological dimensions of capitalism that are tracked through the book...