Jamaican-American historian and sociologist (born 1940)
The Honourable
Orlando Patterson
OM
Patterson at the University of California, Berkeley
Born
Horace Orlando Patterson
(1940-06-05) 5 June 1940 (age 83)
Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica
Title
John Cowles Chair in Sociology at Harvard University
Awards
National Book Award
Musgrave Medal
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Academic background
Education
University of the West Indies
London School of Economics
Doctoral advisor
David Glass
Academic work
Discipline
Sociologist
Institutions
Harvard University
Doctoral students
Mabel Berezin, Marion Fourcade
Main interests
Race in the US
Economic development
Slavery
Social death
Notable works
"The Sociology of Slavery" (1967); "Slavery and Social Death" (1982); Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (1991)
Horace Orlando PattersonOM (born 5 June 1940) is a Jamaican-American historian and sociologist known for his work on the history of race and slavery in the United States and Jamaica, as well as the sociology of development. He is currently the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.[1] Patterson's 1991 book Freedom in the Making of Western Culture won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction.[2]
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^"National Book Awards – 1991". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
Horace OrlandoPatterson OM (born 5 June 1940) is a Jamaican-American historian and sociologist known for his work on the history of race and slavery...
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creolization has undergone a "remapping of worlds regions", or as OrlandoPatterson would explain, "the creation of wholly new cultural forms in the transnational...
blame, in part, for the deterioration of race relations". Sociologist OrlandoPatterson has referred to him as a racial arsonist, while liberal columnist...
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debate regarding the causes of that disproportionality. Sociologist OrlandoPatterson has explained these controversies as disputes between liberal and...
benefit from their very alienation. The term was coined by sociologist OrlandoPatterson in reference to the conditions of African slaves through the Trans-Atlantic...
ISBN 978-0-8014-7528-3. Craton (2009). Testing the Chains. p. 389. OrlandoPatterson, 'Slavery and Slave Revolts: A Sociohistorical Analysis of the First...
Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, Tzvetan Todorov, George Steiner, OrlandoPatterson, Norman Manea, Christopher Hitchens, Seamus Heaney, Mary Gordon, Susan...
arrested for the same crime. Writing in The New York Times, Professor OrlandoPatterson of Harvard University used the case to highlight the use of the prison...
Pascoe, American sociologist Jean-Claude Passeron, French sociologist OrlandoPatterson, Jamaican-American sociologist Karl Pearson (1857–1936), English statistician...
American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance Winner 1991 OrlandoPatterson Freedom, Vol. 1: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture Winner 1992...
literature have included Earl Lovelace, Austin Clarke, Claude McKay, OrlandoPatterson, Andrew Salkey, Edward Kamau Brathwaite (who was born in Barbados...
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