Domesticating Brown

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.

• Acknowledgments ixForeword. For Life xiii Turn: Once More xxiiiIntroduction. Brown Theory: a storied manifest of our world 1Turn: Body Art 331. Crossing the Caucasus: Domesticating Histories of Yellow and Brown in the Mongol Empire 35Turn: Sand 672. Ilocanos on the Run: A Talk-Story 69Turn: Space 1053. Migrant Domestic Workers in the Global City 107Turn: Foreigner Flight 1534. Organic and Inorganic Chinas: Hong Kong and the Question of Chinese Brownness / with Y-Dang Troeung 155Turn: Projects 1955. Brown Crafts: a creative praxis for our present 197Turn: Shit Mountain 233Afterword. After Life 235(Re)Turn 245Notes 247Bibliography 267Index 289

"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