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Orlando Patterson

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Historical and cultural sociologist

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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. S. National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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2016Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
2015Gold Musgrave Medal
2011Great Immigrants Award
1991National Book Award
1991National Book Award for Nonfiction
1983Ralph J. Bunche Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
Order of Merit

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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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Born 1940 · age 86
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