Paper Performance : Suspicion and Asian American Archives.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Ju Yon.

Series:

Asian America Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--History.

Asian Americans.

Racism against Asians.

United States--Race relations--History--Sources.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Since 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.

Contents:

Introduction : racial suspicion's paper performances

Archival dramaturgy : immigration interrogations and the scripts of Chinese exclusion

Distinguishing marks : colonial surveillance, descriptive cards, and other portraits

How to do things with blank forms : suspicious readers and the loyalty questionnaire

Registration dramas : theatricality, antitheatricality, and bureaucratic mimesis

The informant and the activist : performing Asian America through state surveillance

Epilogue : a melancholic attachment to paper.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Kim, Ju Yon Paper Performance

ISBN:

9781503646667

OCLC:

1600520265