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{{Short description|Jamaican-American historian and sociologist (born 1940)}}
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'''Orlando Patterson''' (born 1940) is a historical and cultural sociologist at [[Harvard University]] known for his work regarding issues of [[Race (classification of human beings)|race]] in [[United States|America]], as well as the [[sociology of development]]. Patterson took his B.Sc in Economics from the [[University of London]] and his Ph.D. in Sociology at the [[London School of Economics]] in 1965.
| honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name = Orlando Patterson
| honorific_suffix = {{post nominals|country=JAM|OM}}
| image = Orlando Patterson portrait.jpg
| caption = Patterson at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|06|05|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Westmoreland Parish]], Jamaica
| title = John Cowles Chair in Sociology at [[Harvard University]]
| awards = {{ubl|[[National Book Award]]|[[Musgrave Medal]]|[[Anisfield-Wolf Book Award]]}}
| education = {{ubl|[[University of the West Indies]]|[[London School of Economics]]}}
| doctoral_advisor = [[David Glass (sociologist)|David Glass]]
| discipline = [[sociology|Sociologist]]
| workplaces = Harvard University
| main_interests = {{hlist|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States|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)
| doctoral_students = [[Mabel Berezin]], [[Marion Fourcade]]
| birth_name = Horace Orlando Patterson
}}


'''Horace Orlando Patterson''' {{sc2|[[Order of Merit (Jamaica)|OM]]}} (born 5 June 1940) is a Jamaican-American historian and sociologist known for his work on the history of [[Race (classification of human beings)|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]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/patterson/home|title=Orlando Patterson}}</ref> Patterson's 1991 book ''Freedom in the Making of Western Culture'' won the U.S. [[National Book Award for Nonfiction]].<ref name=nba1991>[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1991 "National Book Awards – 1991"]. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved March 24, 2012.</ref>
Earlier in his career, Patterson was involved concerning the economic and political development of his home country, [[Jamaica]]. He served as [[Special Advisor]] to [[Michael Manley]], the then [[Prime Minister of Jamaica]], from 1972 to 1979.


==Early life and education==
Patterson has appeared on [[PBS]] and has been a guest columnist in [[The New York Times]].
Horace Orlando Patterson was born on 5 June 1940 in [[Westmoreland Parish]], Jamaica,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Contemporary Authors|title-link=Contemporary Authors|publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]]|year=2000|isbn=978-0-7876-3094-2|series=New Revision Series|volume=84|location=Detroit|pages=[[iarchive:isbn_9780787630942/page/374/mode/1up|374–375]]|oclc=43416285}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Getachew|first=Adom|author-link=Adom Getachew|date=September 21, 2020|title=Orlando Patterson and the Postcolonial Predicament|work=[[The Nation]]|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/world/orlando-patterson-the-confounding-island/|access-date=September 26, 2021}}</ref> to Almina Morris and Charles A. Patterson.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rosen|first=Isaac|title=Contemporary Black Biography|publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]]|year=1993|isbn=978-1-4144-3543-5|editor-last=Bigelow|editor-first=Barbara Carlisle|volume=4|location=Detroit|pages=[[iarchive:contemporaryblac0004unse/page/191/mode/1up|191–194]]|chapter=Orlando Patterson 1940–|oclc=527366247}}</ref> His parents were strong supporters of Jamaica’s [[People's National Party|People National Party]], the political party he grew up to serve a few decades later. His father was a local detective while his mother became a seamstress. He had six half-siblings on his father's side but was his mother’s only child.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Scott |first=David |date=March 1, 2013 |title=The Paradox of Freedom: An Interview with Orlando Patterson |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/article/17/1%20(40)/96/32430/The-Paradox-of-Freedom-An-Interview-with-Orlando |journal=Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=96–242 |doi=10.1215/07990537-1665461 |s2cid=146742202}}</ref> He grew up in [[Clarendon Parish, Jamaica|Clarendon Parish]] in the small town of [[May Pen]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Lambert|first=Craig|date=October 15, 2014|title=The Caribbean Zola|url=https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2014/11/the-caribbean-zola|access-date=September 26, 2021|magazine=[[Harvard Magazine]]}}</ref> He attended primary school there, then moved to [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]] to attend [[Kingston College (Jamaica)|Kingston College]]. While attending Kingston College, Patterson won a Jamaica Government Exhibition scholarship in 1958. Before matriculating in 1959, he taught for a year at the Excelsior High School in Jamaica.<ref name=":1" /> He went on to earn a BSc in Economics with a concentration in Sociology from the [[University of the West Indies]], [[Mona, Jamaica|Mona]], in 1962.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Williams |first=Richard |date=1995 |title=Orlando patterson interview |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF02095773 |journal=Sociological Forum |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=653–671 |doi=10.1007/BF02095773 |s2cid=143553641}}</ref> He served as president of the Economics Society, president of the Literary Society and editor of the student magazine 'the Pelican'.<ref name=":1" /> Patterson earned his PhD in sociology at the [[London School of Economics]] in 1965, where he wrote his PhD thesis, the ''Sociology of Slavery''.<ref>[http://www.peepaltreepress.com/author_display.asp?au_id=179 Author information at Peepal Tree Press.]</ref><ref name=":1" /> His dissertation adviser was [[David Glass (sociologist)|David Glass]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://asaculturesection.org/2018/11/30/four-questions-for-orlando-patterson/|title=Four Questions for Orlando Patterson|first=Dustin|last= Stoltz|journal=Section Culture: Newsletter of the ASA Culture Section|date=Fall 2018|volume= 30 |issue=3|access-date=October 8, 2020}}</ref> He also wrote for the recently founded ''[[New Left Review]]'', his first work being "The Essays of [[James Baldwin]]" in 1964.<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=The Essays of James Baldwin|volume= I|issue=26|date= July–August 1964|first=H. Orlando |last=Patterson| url=https://newleftreview.org/issues/I26/articles/h-orlando-patterson-the-essays-of-james-baldwin|access-date=June 4, 2020|magazine=New Left Review}}</ref> While in London he was associated with the [[Caribbean Artists Movement]], whose second meeting, in January 1967, was held at the Pattersons' North London flat.<ref>[[Anne Walmsley|Walmsley, Anne]] (1992), ''The Caribbean Artists Movement, 1966-1972: A Literary and Cultural History'', [[New Beacon Books]], p. 51. {{ISBN|978-1873201060}}.</ref>


==Career==
==Professional Associations==
[[File:Orlando Patterson full-length portrait.jpg|thumb|Patterson before speaking at the University of California, Berkeley, on 2 May 2023]]
*Fellow, [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]
Earlier in his career, Patterson was concerned with the economic and political development of his home country, [[Jamaica]]. He served as special advisor to [[Michael Manley]], [[Prime Minister of Jamaica]], from 1972 to 1979 while serving as a tenured professor at Harvard University. Committed to working both jobs, Patterson split his time between Jamaica and the United States. He often flew to Jamaica the day after his last lecture.<ref name=":1" />
*[[Ernest W. Burgess Fellow]], [[American Academy of Political and Social Science]]

*Member, [[American Sociological Association]]
Patterson is best known for his work on the relationship between slavery and [[social death]], which he has worked on extensively and written several books about. Patterson focuses interests on the culture and practice of freedom, comparative study of slavery and ethno-racial relationships, sociological issues relating to underdeveloped areas in which he references the Caribbean and gender and family relations of black societies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Orlando Patterson |url=https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/orlando-patterson |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=sociology.fas.harvard.edu |language=en}}</ref> Other contributions include [[historical sociology]] and fictional writing with themes of post-colonialism. Patterson has also spent time analyzing social science's scholarship and ethical considerations.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Greenland |first1=Fiona |last2=Steinmetz |first2=George |date=2019 |title=Orlando Patterson, his work, and his legacy: a special issue in celebration of the republication of Slavery and Social Death |journal=Theory and Society |volume=48 |issue=6 |pages=785–797 |doi=10.1007/s11186-019-09371-3 |s2cid=213289330 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

Patterson currently holds the [[John Cowles Sr.|John Cowles]] Chair in sociology at [[Harvard University]].

In October 2015 he received the Gold [[Musgrave Medal]] in recognition of his contribution to literature.<ref>"[http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/entertainment/20151030/gold-sly-and-robbie Gold for Sly and Robbie]", ''[[Jamaica Gleaner]]'', 30 October 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.</ref> In 2020 he was appointed a member of the [[Order of Merit (Jamaica)|Order of Merit]], Jamaica's third-highest national honour.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last1=Henry |first1=Balford |date=August 7, 2020 |title=Orlando Patterson heads list of national honours awardees for 2020 |url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/orlando-patterson-heads-list-of-national-honours-awardees-for-2020_200315?profile=1470#:~:text=Patterson%2C%20who%20is%20now%2080,where%20he%20received%20his%20PhD |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027024704/https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/orlando-patterson-heads-list-of-national-honours-awardees-for-2020_200315?profile=1470#:~:text=Patterson%2C%20who%20is%20now%2080,where%20he%20received%20his%20PhD |archive-date=October 27, 2021 |access-date=August 16, 2020 |newspaper=[[Jamaican Observer]]}}</ref>

==Professional associations==
* Fellow, [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]
* Ernest W. Burgess Fellow, [[American Academy of Political and Social Science]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=August 9, 2016|title=Orlando Patterson|url=https://www.aapss.org/fellow/orlando-patterson/|access-date=October 8, 2020|website=AAPSS}}</ref>
* Member, [[American Sociological Association]]


==Awards==
==Awards==
* 2023: Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Awards |url=https://academysciencesletters.org/awards/ |access-date=2024-10-27 |website=American Academy of Sciences & Letters |language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[Walter Channing Cabot Faculty Prize]], Harvard, 1997
* 2020: [[Order of Merit (Jamaica)|Order of Merit]], Jamaica. "For his highly distinguished international contribution to Academia, West Indian Literature, Sociology, and the Epistemology of Social Culture"<ref name=":0" />
*[[National Book Award]], Non-Fiction, 1991
* 2016: [[Anisfield-Wolf Book Award]], Lifetime Achievement
*[[Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship]] (formerly [[Sorokin Prize]]): [[American Sociological Association]], 1983
* 2015: Gold [[Musgrave Medal]]
*[[Ralph Bunche Award]] from [[Howard University]] for the Best Scholarly Work on Pluralism (co-winner): American
* 1997: Walter Channing Cabot Faculty Prize, Harvard
*[[Political Science Association]], 1983
* 1991: [[National Book Award]], Non-Fiction<ref name=nba1991/>
*[[Walter Channing Cabot Faculty Prize]], Harvard, 1983/1997
* 1983: Walter Channing Cabot Faculty Prize, Harvard
*Best Novel in English: [[Dakar Festival of Negro Arts]], 1965
* 1983: [[American Political Science Association]]
* 1983: Ralph Bunche Award from [[Howard University]] for the Best Scholarly Work on Pluralism (co-winner): American
* 1983: Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship (formerly Sorokin Prize): [[American Sociological Association]]
* 1965: Best Novel in English (''The Children of Sisyphus''): [[World Festival of Black Arts|Dakar Festival of Negro Arts]]


==Selected bibliography==
==Selected works==
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?25534-1/freedom-making-western-culture ''Booknotes'' interview with Patterson on ''Freedom in the Making of Western Culture'', April 12, 1992], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?94684-1/the-ordeal-integration Presentation by Patterson on ''The Ordeal of Integration'', November 2, 1997], [[C-SPAN]]}}
*{{cite book | last=Patterson | first=Orlando | title=Slavery and Social Death | year=1982}}
=== Academic ===
*{{cite book | last=Patterson | first=Orlando | title=Freedom in the Making of Western Culture| year=1991}} (Later renamed Freedom, Vol. 1: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture)
*{{cite book | last=Patterson | first=Orlando | title=Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries| year=1999}}
*{{cite book | last=Patterson | first=Orlando | title=Freedom: Freedom in the Modern World | year=2006}}


*''The Sociology of Slavery: Black Society in Jamaica, 1655-1838''. 1967; 2022(2nd ed.).
*''Ethnic Chauvinism: The Reactionary Impulse''. 1977.
*{{cite book | title=Slavery and Social Death | year=1982}}
*{{cite book | title=Freedom in the Making of Western Culture| year=1991}} Later renamed ''Freedom, Vol. 1: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture'' – winner of National Book Award<ref name="nba1991" />
*''The Ordeal of Integration. 1997''
*{{cite book | title=Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries| year=1999}}
*{{cite book | title=Freedom: Freedom in the Modern World | year=2006}}
*''The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth'' (with Ethan Fosse). 2015.
*''The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament''. 2019.
*''The Sociology of Slavery: Black Society in Jamaica''. Wiley, 2022.
*''The Paradox of Freedom: A Biographical Dialogue'' (with David Scott) 2023

=== Novels ===
*''The Children of Sisyphus''. 1965.
*''An Absence of Ruins''. 1967.
*''Die the Long Day''. 1972.

=== Articles and chapters ===
* {{Cite journal |last=Patterson |first=Orlando |date=September 1, 1971 |title=Rethinking Black History |url=https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.41.3.78u1p14257x57814 |journal=Harvard Educational Review |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=297–315 |doi=10.17763/haer.41.3.78u1p14257x57814}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Patterson |first=Orlando |title=Toward a Future That Has No Past: Reflections on the Fate of Blacks in the Americas |date=Spring 1972 |journal=The Public Interest |pages=25–62 |url=https://www.nationalaffairs.com/storage/app/uploads/public/58e/1a4/b4b/58e1a4b4b40e5097156427.pdf}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Patterson |first=Orlando |title=Race, Gender and Liberal Fallacies |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00064246.1992.11413015 |journal=The Black Scholar |year=1992 |volume=22 |issue=1–2 |pages=77–80 |doi=10.1080/00064246.1992.11413015}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Patterson |first=Orlando |date=1984 |title=Slavery: The Underside of Freedom∗ |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01440398408574867 |journal=Slavery & Abolition |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=87–104 |doi=10.1080/01440398408574867}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Patterson |first=Orlando |date=1994 |title=Ecumenical America: Global Culture and the American Cosmos |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/patterson/publications/ecumenical-america-global-culture-and-american-cosmos |journal=World Policy Journal|volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=103–117 }}
* {{Cite book |last=Patterson |first=Orlando |editor1-last=Friedland |editor1-first=Roger |editor2-last=Mohr |editor2-first=John |title=Matters of Culture: Cultural Sociology in Practice |place=New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2004 |chapter=Culture and Continuity: Causal Structures in Socio-Cultural Persistence |pages=71–109 |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/sites/scholar.harvard.edu/files/patterson/files/continuity.pdf}}.
* {{Cite journal |last1=Patterson |first1=Orlando |last2=Kaufman |first2=J |date=2005 |title=Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket. |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/patterson/publications/cross-national-cultural-diffusion-global-spread-cricket |journal=American Sociological Review|volume=70 |issue=1 |pages=82–110 |doi=10.1177/000312240507000105 |s2cid=20809241 }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Patterson |first1=Orlando |last2=Tomlinson |first2=Alan |last3=Young |first3=Christopher |date=2011 |title=The Culture of Sports |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6443.2011.01418.x |journal=Journal of Historical Sociology |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=549–563 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-6443.2011.01418.x}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Patterson |first=Orlando |date=2014 |title=Making Sense of Culture |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043123 |journal=Annual Review of Sociology |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=1–30 |doi=10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043123}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Patterson |first=Orlando |date=2015 |title=From One Out-In to Another: What's Missing in Wacquant's Structural Analysis |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042098015614438 |journal=Urban Studies |volume=53 |issue=6 |pages=1089–1094 |doi=10.1177/0042098015614438 |s2cid=147431488}}
* {{Cite book |last=Patterson |first=Orlando |url=https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28027/chapter/211849153 |chapter=Freedom, Slavery, and Identity in Renaissance Florence |date=2017 |place=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |editor1-last=Schmidtz |editor1-first=David |editor-last2=Pavel |editor-first2=Carmen E. |title=The Oxford Handbook of Freedom |volume=1 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199989423.013.8}}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Patterson |first1=Orlando |last2=Zhuo |first2=Xiaolin |date=2018 |title=Modern Trafficking, Slavery, and Other Forms of Servitude |journal=Annual Review of Sociology |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=407–439 |doi=10.1146/annurev-soc-073117-041147 |s2cid=149967300|doi-access=free }}
*{{Cite journal |last=Patterson |first=Orlando |date=2019 |title=The Denial of Slavery in Contemporary American Sociology |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11186-019-09369-x |journal=Theory and Society |volume=48 |issue=6 |pages=903–914 |doi=10.1007/s11186-019-09369-x |s2cid=214050925}}

=== Commentary ===
* {{Cite news |last=Patterson |first=Orlando |date=May 9, 2015 |title=Opinion {{!}} The Real Problem With America's Inner Cities |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/opinion/sunday/the-real-problem-with-americas-inner-cities.html |access-date=October 4, 2022}}
* {{Cite news |last=Patterson |first=Orlando |date=August 13, 2016 |title=Opinion {{!}} The Secret of Jamaica's Runners |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/opinion/sunday/the-secret-of-jamaicas-runners.html |access-date=October 3, 2022}}

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/patterson/ Patterson Biography at Harvard]
* [https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/orlando-patterson Profile] at [[Harvard University]]
* {{C-SPAN}}
*[http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/patterson/pattersonv.pdf Patterson's Curriculum Vitae]

*[http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/300 Video of debate/discussion with Patterson] on [[Bloggingheads.tv]]
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Latest revision as of 06:33, 15 November 2024

The Honourable
Orlando Patterson
OM
Patterson at the University of California, Berkeley
Born
Horace Orlando Patterson

(1940-06-05) 5 June 1940 (age 84)
Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica
TitleJohn Cowles Chair in Sociology at Harvard University
Awards
Academic background
Education
Doctoral advisorDavid Glass
Academic work
DisciplineSociologist
InstitutionsHarvard University
Doctoral studentsMabel Berezin, Marion Fourcade
Main interests
Notable works"The Sociology of Slavery" (1967); "Slavery and Social Death" (1982); Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (1991)

Horace Orlando Patterson OM (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]

Early life and education

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Horace Orlando Patterson was born on 5 June 1940 in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica,[3][4] to Almina Morris and Charles A. Patterson.[5] His parents were strong supporters of Jamaica’s People National Party, the political party he grew up to serve a few decades later. His father was a local detective while his mother became a seamstress. He had six half-siblings on his father's side but was his mother’s only child.[6] He grew up in Clarendon Parish in the small town of May Pen.[7] He attended primary school there, then moved to Kingston to attend Kingston College. While attending Kingston College, Patterson won a Jamaica Government Exhibition scholarship in 1958. Before matriculating in 1959, he taught for a year at the Excelsior High School in Jamaica.[6] He went on to earn a BSc in Economics with a concentration in Sociology from the University of the West Indies, Mona, in 1962.[8] He served as president of the Economics Society, president of the Literary Society and editor of the student magazine 'the Pelican'.[6] Patterson earned his PhD in sociology at the London School of Economics in 1965, where he wrote his PhD thesis, the Sociology of Slavery.[9][6] His dissertation adviser was David Glass.[10] He also wrote for the recently founded New Left Review, his first work being "The Essays of James Baldwin" in 1964.[11] While in London he was associated with the Caribbean Artists Movement, whose second meeting, in January 1967, was held at the Pattersons' North London flat.[12]

Career

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Patterson before speaking at the University of California, Berkeley, on 2 May 2023

Earlier in his career, Patterson was concerned with the economic and political development of his home country, Jamaica. He served as special advisor to Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1972 to 1979 while serving as a tenured professor at Harvard University. Committed to working both jobs, Patterson split his time between Jamaica and the United States. He often flew to Jamaica the day after his last lecture.[6]

Patterson is best known for his work on the relationship between slavery and social death, which he has worked on extensively and written several books about. Patterson focuses interests on the culture and practice of freedom, comparative study of slavery and ethno-racial relationships, sociological issues relating to underdeveloped areas in which he references the Caribbean and gender and family relations of black societies.[13] Other contributions include historical sociology and fictional writing with themes of post-colonialism. Patterson has also spent time analyzing social science's scholarship and ethical considerations.[14]

Patterson currently holds the John Cowles Chair in sociology at Harvard University.

In October 2015 he received the Gold Musgrave Medal in recognition of his contribution to literature.[15] In 2020 he was appointed a member of the Order of Merit, Jamaica's third-highest national honour.[16]

Professional associations

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Awards

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Selected works

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External videos
video icon Booknotes interview with Patterson on Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, April 12, 1992, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Patterson on The Ordeal of Integration, November 2, 1997, C-SPAN

Academic

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  • The Sociology of Slavery: Black Society in Jamaica, 1655-1838. 1967; 2022(2nd ed.).
  • Ethnic Chauvinism: The Reactionary Impulse. 1977.
  • Slavery and Social Death. 1982.
  • Freedom in the Making of Western Culture. 1991. Later renamed Freedom, Vol. 1: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture – winner of National Book Award[2]
  • The Ordeal of Integration. 1997
  • Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries. 1999.
  • Freedom: Freedom in the Modern World. 2006.
  • The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth (with Ethan Fosse). 2015.
  • The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament. 2019.
  • The Sociology of Slavery: Black Society in Jamaica. Wiley, 2022.
  • The Paradox of Freedom: A Biographical Dialogue (with David Scott) 2023

Novels

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  • The Children of Sisyphus. 1965.
  • An Absence of Ruins. 1967.
  • Die the Long Day. 1972.

Articles and chapters

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Commentary

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References

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  1. ^ "Orlando Patterson".
  2. ^ a b c "National Book Awards – 1991". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  3. ^ Contemporary Authors. New Revision Series. Vol. 84. Detroit: Gale. 2000. pp. 374–375. ISBN 978-0-7876-3094-2. OCLC 43416285.
  4. ^ Getachew, Adom (September 21, 2020). "Orlando Patterson and the Postcolonial Predicament". The Nation. Retrieved September 26, 2021.
  5. ^ Rosen, Isaac (1993). "Orlando Patterson 1940–". In Bigelow, Barbara Carlisle (ed.). Contemporary Black Biography. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale. pp. 191–194. ISBN 978-1-4144-3543-5. OCLC 527366247.
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  9. ^ Author information at Peepal Tree Press.
  10. ^ Stoltz, Dustin (Fall 2018). "Four Questions for Orlando Patterson". Section Culture: Newsletter of the ASA Culture Section. 30 (3). Retrieved October 8, 2020.
  11. ^ Patterson, H. Orlando (July–August 1964). "The Essays of James Baldwin". New Left Review. Vol. I, no. 26. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  12. ^ Walmsley, Anne (1992), The Caribbean Artists Movement, 1966-1972: A Literary and Cultural History, New Beacon Books, p. 51. ISBN 978-1873201060.
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  15. ^ "Gold for Sly and Robbie", Jamaica Gleaner, 30 October 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
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  18. ^ "Awards". American Academy of Sciences & Letters. Retrieved October 27, 2024.
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