{"product_id":"paper-performance-ju-yon-kim-9781503646650","title":"Paper Performance: Suspicion and Asian American Archives","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ju Yon Kim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503646653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503646650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Ju Yon Kim","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241948688639,"sku":"9781503646650","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_684a63e2-f336-40d2-bbbd-4e96096b65bb.jpg?v=1772656722","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/paper-performance-ju-yon-kim-9781503646650","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}