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Orlando Patterson

February 16, 2024

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]

The Honourable

Orlando Patterson

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

(1940-06-05) 5 June 1940 (age 83)
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)

Early life and education edit

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 edit

 
Orlando 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. 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.[13]

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.[14] In 2020 he was appointed a member of the Order of Merit, Jamaica's third-highest national honour.[15]

Professional associations edit

Awards edit

Selected works edit

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

Academic edit

  • 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 edit

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

Articles and chapters edit

  • Patterson, Orlando (September 1, 1971). "Rethinking Black History". Harvard Educational Review. 41 (3): 297–315. doi:10.17763/haer.41.3.78u1p14257x57814.
  • Patterson, Orlando (Spring 1972). "Toward a Future That Has No Past: Reflections on the Fate of Blacks in the Americas" (PDF). The Public Interest: 25–62.
  • Patterson, Orlando (1992). "Race, Gender and Liberal Fallacies". The Black Scholar. 22 (1–2): 77–80. doi:10.1080/00064246.1992.11413015.
  • Patterson, Orlando (1984). "Slavery: The Underside of Freedom∗". Slavery & Abolition. 5 (2): 87–104. doi:10.1080/01440398408574867.
  • Patterson, Orlando (1994). "Ecumenical America: Global Culture and the American Cosmos". World Policy Journal.
  • Patterson, Orlando (2004). "Culture and Continuity: Causal Structures in Socio-Cultural Persistence". In Friedland, Roger; Mohr, John (eds.). Matters of Culture: Cultural Sociology in Practice (PDF). New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 71–109..
  • Patterson, Orlando; Kaufman, J (2005). "Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket". American Sociological Review.
  • Patterson, Orlando; Tomlinson, Alan; Young, Christopher (2011). "The Culture of Sports". Journal of Historical Sociology. 24 (4): 549–563. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6443.2011.01418.x.
  • Patterson, Orlando (2014). "Making Sense of Culture". Annual Review of Sociology. 40 (1): 1–30. doi:10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043123.
  • Patterson, Orlando (2015). "From One Out-In to Another: What's Missing in Wacquant's Structural Analysis". Urban Studies. 53 (6): 1089–1094. doi:10.1177/0042098015614438. S2CID 147431488.
  • Patterson, Orlando (2017). "Freedom, Slavery, and Identity in Renaissance Florence". In Schmidtz, David; Pavel, Carmen E. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Freedom. Vol. 1. New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199989423.013.8.
  • Patterson, Orlando; Zhuo, Xiaolin (2018). "Modern Trafficking, Slavery, and Other Forms of Servitude". Annual Review of Sociology. 44 (1): 407–439. doi:10.1146/annurev-soc-073117-041147. S2CID 149967300.</ref>
  • Patterson, Orlando (2019). "The Denial of Slavery in Contemporary American Sociology". Theory and Society. 48 (6): 903–914. doi:10.1007/s11186-019-09369-x. S2CID 214050925.</ref>

Commentary edit

  • Patterson, Orlando (May 9, 2015). "Opinion | The Real Problem With America's Inner Cities". The New York Times. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
  • Patterson, Orlando (August 13, 2016). "Opinion | The Secret of Jamaica's Runners". The New York Times. Retrieved October 3, 2022.

References edit

  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.
  6. ^ a b c d e Scott, David (March 1, 2013). "The Paradox of Freedom: An Interview with Orlando Patterson". Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 17 (1): 96–242. doi:10.1215/07990537-1665461. S2CID 146742202.
  7. ^ Lambert, Craig (October 15, 2014). "The Caribbean Zola". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved September 26, 2021.
  8. ^ Williams, Richard (1995). "Orlando patterson interview". Sociological Forum. 10 (4): 653–671. doi:10.1007/BF02095773. S2CID 143553641.
  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.
  13. ^ Greenland, Fiona; Steinmetz, George (2019). "Orlando Patterson, his work, and his legacy: a special issue in celebration of the republication of Slavery and Social Death". Theory and Society. 48 (6): 785–797. doi:10.1007/s11186-019-09371-3. S2CID 213289330.
  14. ^ "Gold for Sly and Robbie", Jamaica Gleaner, 30 October 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  15. ^ a b Henry, Balford (August 7, 2020). . Jamaican Observer. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  16. ^ "Orlando Patterson". AAPSS. August 9, 2016. Retrieved October 8, 2020.

External links edit

February 16, 2024
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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 The HonourableOrlando PattersonOMOrlando Patterson at the University of California BerkeleyBornHorace Orlando Patterson 1940 06 05 5 June 1940 age 83 Westmoreland Parish JamaicaTitleJohn Cowles Chair in Sociology at Harvard UniversityAwardsNational Book AwardMusgrave MedalAnisfield Wolf Book AwardAcademic backgroundEducationUniversity of the West IndiesLondon School of EconomicsDoctoral advisorDavid GlassAcademic workDisciplineSociologistInstitutionsHarvard UniversityDoctoral studentsMabel Berezin Marion FourcadeMain interestsRace in the USEconomic developmentSlaverySocial deathNotable works The Sociology of Slavery 1967 Slavery and Social Death 1982 Freedom in the Making of Western Culture 1991 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Professional associations 4 Awards 5 Selected works 5 1 Academic 5 2 Novels 5 3 Articles and chapters 5 4 Commentary 6 References 7 External linksEarly life and education editHorace 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 edit nbsp Orlando Patterson before speaking at the University of California Berkeley on 2 May 2023Earlier 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 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 13 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 14 In 2020 he was appointed a member of the Order of Merit Jamaica s third highest national honour 15 Professional associations editFellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences Ernest W Burgess Fellow American Academy of Political and Social Science 16 Member American Sociological AssociationAwards edit2020 Order of Merit Jamaica For his highly distinguished international contribution to Academia West Indian Literature Sociology and the Epistemology of Social Culture 15 2016 Anisfield Wolf Book Award Lifetime Achievement 2015 Gold Musgrave Medal 1997 Walter Channing Cabot Faculty Prize Harvard 1991 National Book Award Non Fiction 2 1983 Walter Channing Cabot Faculty Prize Harvard 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 Dakar Festival of Negro ArtsSelected works editExternal videos nbsp Booknotes interview with Patterson on Freedom in the Making of Western Culture April 12 1992 C SPAN nbsp Presentation by Patterson on The Ordeal of Integration November 2 1997 C SPANAcademic edit 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 2023Novels edit The Children of Sisyphus 1965 An Absence of Ruins 1967 Die the Long Day 1972 Articles and chapters edit Patterson Orlando September 1 1971 Rethinking Black History Harvard Educational Review 41 3 297 315 doi 10 17763 haer 41 3 78u1p14257x57814 Patterson Orlando Spring 1972 Toward a Future That Has No Past Reflections on the Fate of Blacks in the Americas PDF The Public Interest 25 62 Patterson Orlando 1992 Race Gender and Liberal Fallacies The Black Scholar 22 1 2 77 80 doi 10 1080 00064246 1992 11413015 Patterson Orlando 1984 Slavery The Underside of Freedom Slavery amp Abolition 5 2 87 104 doi 10 1080 01440398408574867 Patterson Orlando 1994 Ecumenical America Global Culture and the American Cosmos World Policy Journal Patterson Orlando 2004 Culture and Continuity Causal Structures in Socio Cultural Persistence In Friedland Roger Mohr John eds Matters of Culture Cultural Sociology in Practice PDF New York Cambridge University Press pp 71 109 Patterson Orlando Kaufman J 2005 Cross National Cultural Diffusion The Global Spread of Cricket American Sociological Review Patterson Orlando Tomlinson Alan Young Christopher 2011 The Culture of Sports Journal of Historical Sociology 24 4 549 563 doi 10 1111 j 1467 6443 2011 01418 x Patterson Orlando 2014 Making Sense of Culture Annual Review of Sociology 40 1 1 30 doi 10 1146 annurev soc 071913 043123 Patterson Orlando 2015 From One Out In to Another What s Missing in Wacquant s Structural Analysis Urban Studies 53 6 1089 1094 doi 10 1177 0042098015614438 S2CID 147431488 Patterson Orlando 2017 Freedom Slavery and Identity in Renaissance Florence In Schmidtz David Pavel Carmen E eds The Oxford Handbook of Freedom Vol 1 New York Oxford University Press doi 10 1093 oxfordhb 9780199989423 013 8 Patterson Orlando Zhuo Xiaolin 2018 Modern Trafficking Slavery and Other Forms of Servitude Annual Review of Sociology 44 1 407 439 doi 10 1146 annurev soc 073117 041147 S2CID 149967300 lt ref gt Patterson Orlando 2019 The Denial of Slavery in Contemporary American Sociology Theory and Society 48 6 903 914 doi 10 1007 s11186 019 09369 x S2CID 214050925 lt ref gt Commentary edit Patterson Orlando May 9 2015 Opinion The Real Problem With America s Inner Cities The New York Times Retrieved October 4 2022 Patterson Orlando August 13 2016 Opinion The Secret of Jamaica s Runners The New York Times Retrieved October 3 2022 References edit Orlando Patterson a b c National Book Awards 1991 National Book Foundation Retrieved March 24 2012 Contemporary Authors New Revision Series Vol 84 Detroit Gale 2000 pp 374 375 ISBN 978 0 7876 3094 2 OCLC 43416285 Getachew Adom September 21 2020 Orlando Patterson and the Postcolonial Predicament The Nation Retrieved September 26 2021 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 a b c d e Scott David March 1 2013 The Paradox of Freedom An Interview with Orlando Patterson Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 17 1 96 242 doi 10 1215 07990537 1665461 S2CID 146742202 Lambert Craig October 15 2014 The Caribbean Zola Harvard Magazine Retrieved September 26 2021 Williams Richard 1995 Orlando patterson interview Sociological Forum 10 4 653 671 doi 10 1007 BF02095773 S2CID 143553641 Author information at Peepal Tree Press Stoltz Dustin Fall 2018 Four Questions for Orlando Patterson Section Culture Newsletter of the ASA Culture Section 30 3 Retrieved October 8 2020 Patterson H Orlando July August 1964 The Essays of James Baldwin New Left Review Vol I no 26 Retrieved June 4 2020 Walmsley Anne 1992 The Caribbean Artists Movement 1966 1972 A Literary and Cultural History New Beacon Books p 51 ISBN 978 1873201060 Greenland Fiona Steinmetz George 2019 Orlando Patterson his work and his legacy a special issue in celebration of the republication of Slavery and Social Death Theory and Society 48 6 785 797 doi 10 1007 s11186 019 09371 3 S2CID 213289330 Gold for Sly and Robbie Jamaica Gleaner 30 October 2015 Retrieved 1 November 2015 a b Henry Balford August 7 2020 Orlando Patterson heads list of national honours awardees for 2020 Jamaican Observer Archived from the original on October 27 2021 Retrieved August 16 2020 Orlando Patterson AAPSS August 9 2016 Retrieved October 8 2020 External links editProfile at Harvard University Appearances on C SPAN nbsp Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Orlando Patterson amp oldid 1196004631, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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