1. Orlando Patterson is currently the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.
16 Facts About Orlando Patterson
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Horace Orlando Patterson was born on 5 June 1940 in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica, to Almina Morris and Charles A Patterson.
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Orlando Patterson's parents were strong supporters of Jamaica's People National Party, the political party he grew up to serve a few decades later.
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Orlando Patterson's father was a local detective while his mother became a seamstress.
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Orlando Patterson had six half-siblings on his father's side but was his mother's only child.
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Orlando Patterson attended primary school there, then moved to Kingston to attend Kingston College.
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Orlando Patterson went on to earn a BSc in economics with a concentration in Sociology from the University of the West Indies, Mona, in 1962.
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Orlando Patterson served as president of the Economics Society, president of the Literary Society and editor of the student magazine 'the Pelican'.
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Orlando Patterson earned his PhD in sociology at the London School of Economics in 1965, where he wrote his PhD thesis, the Sociology of Slavery.
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Orlando Patterson wrote for the recently founded New Left Review, his first work being "The Essays of James Baldwin" in 1964.
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Orlando Patterson served as special advisor to Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1972 to 1979 while serving as a tenured professor at Harvard University.
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Orlando Patterson often flew to Jamaica the day after his last lecture.
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Orlando 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.
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Orlando 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.
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Orlando Patterson has spent time analyzing social science's scholarship and ethical considerations.
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Orlando Patterson currently holds the John Cowles Chair in sociology at Harvard University.