Domesticating Brown

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Movements of Racial Imagination

Christopher B. Patterson

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Duke University Press
02 March 2026

Social discrimination; Gender studies, gender groups; Ethnic studies; Black & Asian studies

Series: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise

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.

By: Christopher B. Patterson
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 445g
ISBN: 9781478032892
ISBN 10: 1478032898
Series: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 02 March 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments ix Foreword. For Life xiii Turn: Once More Introduction. Brown Theory: a storied manifest of our world 1 Turn: Body Art 1. Crossing the Caucasus: Domesticating Histories of Yellow and Brown in the Mongol Empire 35 Turn: Sand 2. Ilocanos on the Run: A Talk-Story 69 Turn: Space 3. Migrant Domestic Workers in the Global City 107 Turn: Foreigner Flight 4. Organic and Inorganic Chinas: Hong Kong and the Question of Chinese Brownness 155 Turn: Projects 5. Brown Crafts: a creative praxis for our present 197 Turn: Shit Mountain Afterword. After Life 235 (Re)Turn Notes 247 Bibliography 267 Index 289

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.

Reviews for Domesticating Brown: Movements of Racial Imagination

""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