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About Christopher Patterson

Christopher B. Patterson is an Assistant Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia.

NBN Episodes hosted by Christopher:

Asian American Studies February 9, 2021

The Race Card

From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities

Tara Fickle

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This unique episode features a dual/duel interview with two authors whose recent books focus on the overlapping contexts and theories of Game Studies and Asian American Studies. The first is …
American Studies August 19, 2019

Unsustainable Empire

Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood

Dean Itsuji Saranillio

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
In Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood (Duke University Press, 2018), Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S. state. Hawai‘i …
Literary Studies August 2, 2019

Migrant Futures

Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times

Aimee Bahng

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
In Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times (Duke UP, 2018), Aimee Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative …
Literary Studies August 20, 2018

Transpacific Attachments

Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness

Lily Wong

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Lily Wong's Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness (Columbia University Press, 2018) traces the genealogy of the Chinese sex worker as a figure who manifests …
Asian American Studies August 8, 2018

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art

Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe, eds.

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Queering Contemporary Asian American Art (University of Washington Press, 2017), Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe gather artists and scholars whose work disrupts, challenges, and reimagines ways of being Asian …
Literary Studies February 8, 2018

The Work of Mothering

Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora

Harrod Suarez

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Harrod Suarez's new book The Work of Mothering: Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora (University of Illinois Press, 2017) focuses on the domestic workers that make up around a third of …
American Studies June 28, 2016

Unsettled

Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto

Eric Tang

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Eric Tang's book, Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto (Temple University Press, 2015), is an intimate ethnography of a single person, Ra Pronh, a fifty year old survivor of …
Literary Studies March 20, 2015

Pluralist Universalism

An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms

Wen Jin

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Wen Jin's book, Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms (Ohio State Press, 2012), compares histories and modes of multiculturalism in China and the United States …
American Studies December 28, 2014

Chinese Looks

Fashion, Performance, Race

Sean Metzger

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Sean Metzger's Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race (Indiana University Press 2014),examines how, in the past 150 years, China was rendered legible to Americans through items of clothing and adornment. Professor …
American Studies November 4, 2014

Transpacific Femininities

The Making of the Modern Filipina

Denise Cruz

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Denise Cruz's Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina (Duke University Press, 2012) traces representations of Filipinas in literature and popular culture during periods of transitional power in the …
American Studies September 22, 2014

Securing Paradise

Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines

Vernadette V. Gonzalez

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez's Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines (Duke University Press, 2013), examines the intertwined relationship between tourism and militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines …
Asian American Studies July 22, 2014

Beyond the Nation

Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading

Martin Joseph Ponce

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Martin Joseph Ponce's recently published book, Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading (NYU Press, 2012), traces the roots of Filipino literature to examine how it was shaped …
American Studies June 16, 2014

Undercover Asian

Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture

Leilani Nishime

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Leilani Nishime's Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture (University of Illinois Press, 2014) challenges the dominant U.S. cultural narrative that imagines multiracial people as symbols of a future …
American Studies February 17, 2014

The Color of Success

Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority

Ellen D. Wu

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Ellen D. Wu's The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority (Princeton University Press, 2014) charts the complex emergence of the model minority myth in …
American Studies February 1, 2014

The Beautiful Generation

Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion

Thuy Linh Tu

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Thuy Linh Tu's The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion (Duke University Press, 2010) considers the recent rise of Asian Americans working in New York's fashion …
American Studies January 16, 2014

The Third Asiatic Invasion

Migration and Empire in Filipino America, 1898-1946

Rick Baldoz

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Rick Baldoz is the author of The Third Asiatic Invasion: Migration and Empire in Filipino America, 1898-1946 (NYU Press, 2011), which investigates the complex relationship between the U.S. and Filipinos …
Literary Studies January 6, 2014

Ingratitude

The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature

Erin Khue Ninh

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Erin Khue Ninh is the author of Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature (New York University Press, 2011), which in 2013, won the Literary Studies Book Award from …
Literary Studies December 18, 2013

Interracial Encounters

Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937

Julia H. Lee

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Julia H. Lee is the author of Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937 (New York University Press, 2011). Dr. Lee is an Assistant Professor in …
American Studies November 21, 2013

The Model Minority Stereotype

Demystifying Asian American Success

Nicholas Hartlep

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Nicholas Hartlep is the author of The Model Minority Stereotype: Demystifying Asian American Success (Information Age, 2013). Dr. Hartlep is an Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations at Illinois State University …
American Studies October 30, 2013

Migrants for Export

How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World

Robyn Rodriguez

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
While it has become typical to see Filipina/o migrants working in nursing or domestic work in the United States, many are surprised to see Filipina/os doing the same work in …
American Studies October 24, 2013

Little Manila is in the Heart

The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California

Dawn B. Mabalon

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Read most any account of early Filipino America, and you're likely to hear a story of roaming migrant bachelors who rarely settled. Yet if this was always the case, then …
African American Studies July 25, 2013

The Color of Christ

The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America

Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Jesus has inspired millions of people to both strive for social justice and commit horrific acts of violence. In the United States, Jesus has remained central in the construction of …