"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 "Patterson's Domesticating Brown is an ambitious project examining how racial imaginaries have shaped and subverted a minoritarian politics of 'brownness' over the longue durée of US imperialism. While its unconventional style of presentation sometimes distracts the reader, Domesticating Brown 's ambitious theoretical (and historical) scope, creative analyses of evidentiary sources, and well-argued positions more than compensate for it."-- Mushahid Hussain , Ethnic and Racial Studies.