{"product_id":"paper-performance-suspicion-and-asian-american-archives-paperback","title":"Paper Performance: Suspicion and Asian American Archives - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJu Yon Kim\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have developed elaborate bureaucratic procedures to manage \"suspect\" Asian groups. Ju Yon Kim explores the modes of engagement and contestation available to those who are subjected by the state to both relentless documentation and demands to perform--whether as lawful immigrants, obedient colonial subjects, or loyal Americans. Even as paper documentation has been critical to authorizing exclusion, surveillance, and incarceration by the state, it has also enabled performances \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e paper that have facilitated transnational passage, mobilized resistance to administration, and troubled the logic of racial and national classifications. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Linking histories of Chinese immigration exclusion, the U.S. colonization of the Philippines, the internment of Japanese Americans, and FBI surveillance of political groups, Kim brings together studies of paperwork and performance to demonstrate their continued, intertwined impact on Asian American history and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJu Yon Kim\u003c\/b\u003e is the Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English at Harvard University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday\u003c\/i\u003e (2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 316\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54383663776077,"sku":"9781503646650","price":71.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/02zB82wVsC9781503646650.webp?v=1784880344","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/paper-performance-suspicion-and-asian-american-archives-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}