"Ikyo Day’s book will take its place amongst important work that theorizes, historicizes and offers a way to speak to the intersections of capitalism, white supremacy, settler colonialism, and migration in white settler contexts."
- Kevin Bruyneel (Theory & Event) "Day deftly retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with capitalism and the racialization of Asian immigrants to Canada and the United States. . . . [A] valuable resource."
- Sumiko Braun (Amerasia Journal) “Alien Capital is a persuasive and thought-provoking study, challenging scholars to rethink historical interpretations of settler colonialism, immigration, labor, and race in North America.”
“Insightful, intersectional cultural criticism.... I highly recommend Alien Capital for Native American and Indigenous studies scholars with an interest in settler-colonialism, critical ethnic studies, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, visual cultures, and literature.”
- Beenash Jafri (Native American and Indigenous Studies) “Alien Capital . . . puts forward a much-needed account that unwaveringly reformulates the terms through which settler colonialism might be examined and contested from an Asian diasporic perspective.”
- Szu Shen (Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas) "Day offers us a new way of understanding how settler colonialism capitalism articulates race and provides new analytical tools for pushing forward settler colonial studies, cultural studies, and Asian American Studies."
- Faye Caronan (Pacific Historical Review) "Day’s work provides a valuable look at settler colonialism and its ramifications for the East Asian peoples of Canada and the United States."
"Alien Capital offers a necessary and deeply welcome investigation into the intersections of race, indigeneity, and white settler colonialism."
- Lily Cho (English Studies in Canada)
