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Orlando Patterson
Orlando Patterson | |
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 Patterson at the University of California, Berkeley | |
| Born | Horace Orlando Patterson 5 June 1940 Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica |
| Title | John Cowles Chair in Sociology at Harvard University |
| Awards | |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Doctoral advisor | David Glass |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociologist |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral students | Mabel 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]
- ^ "Orlando Patterson".
- ^ "National Book Awards – 1991". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
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