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Asian American studies
Asian studies
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Brown
brown crafts
brown futurity
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Filipina domestic workers
gender
global transit
Hawai'i
Hong Kong
Honolulu
Las Vegas
Mongol Empire
Pacific studies
Philippines
queer
race
Singapore
Taiwan
Vietnam War
Product details
- ISBN 9781478029465
- Weight: 572g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
