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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:

Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast October 19, 2022

Reckoning with the Interdiscipline

Journal of Asian American Studies 25:2 (June 2022)

Lily Anne Welty Tamai and Paul Spickard

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
In this episode, we discuss a special issue of The Journal of Asian American Studies: “Reckoning with the Interdiscipline.” This special issue, first conceived in 2018, reflects on fifty years …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast August 25, 2021

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 4)

Kandice Chuh’s "The Difference Aesthetics Makes"

Kandice Chuh

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This is the last episode of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS). This episode …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast August 24, 2021

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 3)

A Discussion with Xuan Juliana Wang and Ricco Villanueva Siasoco

Xuan Juliana Wang and Ricco Villanueva Siasoco

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This is the third episode of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS). This episode …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast June 1, 2021

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 2)

Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley and Jan-Henry Gray

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This is the second episode of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian American Studies. This episode features …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast May 18, 2021

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 1)

Jian Neo Chen and Quynh Nhu Le

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This episode will be the first of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian American Studies. Since 1987 …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast April 6, 2021

Roundtable on Asian Migrant Sex Work

Alison Clancey, Kelly Go, Lily Wong, and Yuri Doolan

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This episode features three interviews with organizers and scholars concerned with Asian migrant sex work: SWAN Vancouver (Alison Clancey and Kelly Go), Dr. Lily Wong, and Dr. Yuri Doolan. On …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast March 1, 2021

#WeToo Reader

Journal of Asian American Studies 24:1 (February 2021)

erin Khuê Ninh and Shireen Roshanravan

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
In this inaugural episode, we discuss a unique special issue of The Journal of Asian American Studies: #WeToo, a reader of Art, Poetry, Fiction, and Memoir, that seeks to answer …
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 …
Asian 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 …
Asian American 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 …
Asian American Studies September 10, 2018

A Nation on the Line

Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines

Jan M. Padios

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Jan M. Padios' new book A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines (Duke University Press, ) sheds light on the industry of offshore call …
Asian American 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 13, 2018

The Labor of Care

Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age

Valerie Francisco-Menchavez

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez's new book, The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2018) traces how globalization, neoliberalism and new technology …
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 …
Asian American Studies May 25, 2018

Soldiering Through Empire

Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific

Simeon Man

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Simeon Man's book Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific (University of California Press, 2018) focuses on the role of Asians who worked within the making …
Asian American Studies March 26, 2018

Transitive Cultures

Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific

Christopher B. Patterson

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
Christopher B. Patterson's book Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific (Rutgers University Press, 2018) reads English-language literary production from Southeast Asia and its diasporas in North America to recognize …
Asian American 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 …
Asian 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 …
Asian American 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 …
Asian 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 …
Asian 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 …
Asian 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 …
Asian 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 …