... Indian Ocean colonial racialization Asian racialization Asian capitalism indenture ...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... Racialization Multiculturalism South Asian diaspora Migration ...

... racial tastes multiculturalism tolerance Asian cheapness ...

... 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...

... 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...

... for Asian superbloggers’ tastes. Chapter 1 discusses the historical, cultural, and political legacy of dominant racial tastes—and distastes—for Asians. The “cheap Asian” stereotype provides a critical model of one specific articulation of racial tastes for and against Asianness. The stereotype has...