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Orlando Patterson

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#215

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Bachelors Economics University of the West Indies

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According to Wikipedia, Horace Orlando Patterson 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. Patterson's 1991 book Freedom in the Making of Western Culture won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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Orlando Patterson's Published Works

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Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. (1984) (1585)
The Ordeal Of Integration: Progress And Resentment In America's "Racial" Crisis (1997) (268)
Making Sense of Culture (2014) (177)
The Sociology of Slavery: An Analysis of the Origins, Development, and Structure of Negro Slave Society in Jamaica (1969) (165)
Democracy and Trust: Liberty against the democratic state: on the historical and contemporary sources of American distrust (1999) (155)
Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket (2005) (147)
Race and Gender Relations in Rituals of Blood@@@Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries (2000) (146)
Freedom in the making of Western culture (1991) (125)
Slavery's Bloody, Embodied Legacy@@@Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries (2000) (122)
Ethnic chauvinism : the reactionary impulse (1978) (71)
Taking Culture Seriously: A Framework and an Afro-American Illustration (2001) (66)
The cultural matrix : understanding Black youth (2015) (63)
What Is Ethnicity (1974) (42)
Ethnic Chauvinism: The Reactionary Impulse. (1979) (38)
Modern Trafficking, Slavery, and Other Forms of Servitude (2018) (33)
Rethinking Black History (1971) (26)
THE STRUCTURAL ORIGINS OF SLAVERY: A CRITIQUE OF THE NIEBOER‐DOMAR HYPOTHESIS FROM A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (1977) (24)
The Mechanisms of Cultural Reproduction: Explaining the Puzzle of Persistence (2010) (23)
Helotic Slavery and Freedom (2003) (22)
Culture and Continuity: Causal Structures in Socio-Cultural Persistence (2004) (22)
Persistence, Continuity, and Change in the Jamaican Working-Class Family (1982) (22)
Rituals of Blood: Sacrificial Murders in the Postbellum South (1999) (21)
Ecumenical America: Global Culture and the American Cosmos (1994) (20)
Toward a Future That Has No Past: Reflections on the Fate of Blacks in the Americas. (1972) (19)
Affirmative Action: Opening up Workplace Networks to Afro-Americans (1998) (18)
Integration, Diversity, and Affirmative Action@@@The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America's "Racial" Crisis@@@To Be an American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (1998) (17)
The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries (2015) (17)
Beyond Compassion: Selfish Reasons for Being Unselfish (2002) (15)
Freedom, Slavery, and the Modern Construction of Rights (2008) (15)
The Nature, Causes, and Implications of Ethnic Identification (1983) (14)
Trafficking, Gender & Slavery: Past and Present (2011) (12)
Freedom. I. Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (1994) (12)
Race, Gender and Liberal Fallacies (1992) (12)
2. The Social and Cultural Matrix of Black Youth (2015) (11)
Language, Ethnicity, and Change. (1980) (11)
The denial of slavery in contemporary American sociology (2019) (9)
The Children of Sisyphus (2011) (9)
1. The Nature and Dynamics of Cultural Processes (2015) (9)
Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation. By William H. Sewell, Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xi+412. $27.50. (2007) (8)
Inequality in America - And what to do about it (2010) (8)
Revisiting Slavery, Property, and Social Death (2016) (8)
About Public Sociology (2007) (7)
Slavery: The underside of freedom∗ (1984) (6)
Viewpoint 2: Ethnicity and the Pluralist Fallacy (1975) (6)
Chronology of World Slavery (1999) (5)
The Confounding Island (2019) (5)
13. “Try On the Outfit and Just See How It Works”: The Psychocultural Responses of Disconnected Youth to Work (2015) (5)
The American view of freedom: What we say, what we mean (2001) (5)
The Origins of Freedom@@@Freedom. Volume 1: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture. (1992) (4)
The Moral Crisis of the Black American. (1973) (4)
The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament (2019) (4)
Recent Studies on Caribbean Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade (1982) (4)
Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy: Four modes of ethno-somatic stratification: the experience of Blacks in Europe and the Americas (2005) (4)
Formation of Consciousness Group Report (1983) (3)
Boston's Police Solution (1999) (3)
For Whom the Bell Curves: IQ Scores in Historical Perspective. (1995) (3)
Freedom. Freedom in the Making of Western Culture. Volume 1 (1992) (2)
On the Provenance of Diversity (2005) (2)
Four Modes of Ethnosomatic Stratification: Blacks in Europe and the Americas (2004) (2)
On Guilt, Relativism and Black-White Relations. (1973) (2)
Slave Systems: Slavery, gender, and work in the pre-modern world and early Greece: a cross-cultural analysis (2008) (2)
Freedom. Volume 1, Freedom in the Making of Western Culture.@@@Freedom: A History. (1992) (2)
From one Out-In to another: What’s missing in Wacquant’s structural analysis (2016) (2)
The Ancient and Medieval Origins of Modern Freedom (2006) (2)
The mechanisms of cultural reproduction (2010) (2)
Freedom and 9/11 (2011) (1)
White Poor, Black Poor (1992) (1)
The Post-Black Condition (2011) (1)
The Culture of Sports (2011) (1)
Being and Blackness (2006) (1)
Slavery: Comparative Aspects (2001) (1)
Authority, Alienation, and Social Death (2017) (1)
Freedom, Slavery, and Identity in Renaissance Florence (2018) (1)
Stability and Change in Americans’ Perception of Freedom (2019) (1)
The children of Sisyphus : a novel (1965) (1)
Rejoinder (2016) (0)
Letters from readers (1987) (0)
The Tradition of the Sorcerer and the Ethnic Revival@@@Ethnic Chauvinism: The Reactionary Impulse. (1979) (0)
Slavery: An Attempt at Universal Definition@@@Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. (1986) (0)
Who's Chauvinist?@@@Ethnic Chauvinism: The Reactionary Impulse. (1979) (0)
The Paradox of Integration: Why Whites and Blacks Seem So Divided (2018) (0)
ETHNOLOGY: Slavery in the Americas: A Comparative Study of Virginia and Cuba. Herbert S. Klein (1970) (0)
A Comparison of Patterson and Bagehot@@@Ethnic Chauvinism: The Reactionary Impulse. (1979) (0)
The Slave Body: (2020) (0)
Institutions, Cultures, and Development: The Caribbean Experience (2013) (0)
Racial Differences in the Problems Confronting American Youth (2012) (0)
Tibet (Province of China) (2012) (0)
Cross-National C Cultural D Diffusion: The G Global S Spread o of C Cricket (2005) (0)
Slavery as Social Institution (2001) (0)
A World View of Slavery (1983) (0)
Three Notes of Freedom: (2021) (0)
Conclusion: What Have We Learned? (2015) (0)

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