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Domesticating Brown: Movements of Racial Imagination
Domesticating Brown interrogates the slippery senses that brownness as a racial form has manifested over time, charting its transitions across historical colonial contexts and into the transpacific dynamics of contemporary empire. Christopher B. Patterson rethinks universalist definitions of race to consider the constant movements in racial contexts, meanings, and practices that "brownness" reveals: as a site for the ungovernable brown mass, as peoples marked for domestication through strategies of colonial containment, and as the complex shades that reveal troubling genealogies and shameful intimacies. Tracing the emergences and transformations of brownness in various contexts of transpacific encounter--from the Mongol Empire to Filipino plantation migration in Hawaiʻi, from the imperial management of Hong Kong to contemporary brown authorship--Domesticating Brown explores how colonial subjects and other marginalized peoples have strategized ways of resisting and reversing dominating notions of brownness through art, story, and embodied difference.
Book Details
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publish Date: Mar 31st, 2026
- Pages: 328
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.98lb
- EAN: 9781478032892
- Categories: • Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - Asian American & Paci• Cultural & Ethnic Studies - Asian Studies• Gender Studies
About the Author
Christopher B. Patterson is Associate Professor of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Open World Empire and co-editor of Made in Asia/America, the latter of which was published by Duke University Press.
Praise for this book
"A luminous and methodologically daring work, this book is a lyrical collage that reframes how we theorize brownness. Insightful, beautifully written, and intellectually fearless, it will become a guiding text for future scholarship on race, embodiment, and colonial modernity."--Sony Coráñez Bolton, author of, Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines "A highly ambitious and theoretically rigorous book, Domesticating Brown weaves family histories with racial historical narratives, moving through personal experiences of travel and grief, and grappling with domestication as a racial colonial project."--Ma Vang, author of, History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies