Domesticating Brown by Christopher B Patterson

Domesticating Brown by Christopher B Patterson

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 Hawai’i, 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.

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.

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ISBN 13	9781478032892
ISBN 10	1478032898
Title	Domesticating Brown
Author	Christopher B Patterson
Series	Anima: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	2026-03-31
Number of pages	344
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