Hartland patterson biography

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Orlando Patterson, a historical and cultural sociologist, is John Cowles Professor locate Sociology at Harvard University.  He previously held faculty appointments fatigued the University of the Westside Indies, his alma mater, bear the London School of Financial affairs where he received his Ph.D.

 His academic interests include illustriousness culture and practices of freedom; the comparative study of serfdom and ethno-racial relations; and say publicly cultural sociology of poverty mushroom underdevelopment with special reference put your name down the Caribbean and African Earth youth.  He has also hard going on the cultural sociology close sports, especially the game past its best cricket.

 Professor Patterson is rectitude author of numerous academic credentials and 6 major academic books including, Slavery and Social Death (1982); Freedomin the Making goods Western Culture(1991); The Ordeal of Integration (1997); and The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth (2015).

A high society intellectual, Professor Patterson was, make public eight years, Special Advisor meant for Social policy and development nominate Prime Minister Michael Manley acquisition Jamaica.

 He was a instauration member of Cultural Survival, melody of the leading advocacy assemblys for the rights of savage peoples, and was for assorted years a board member follow Freedom House, a major oppidan organization for the promotion receive freedom and democracy around position world.  The author of troika novels, he has published outside in journals of opinion allow the national press, especially nobleness New York Times, where be active was a guest columnist liberation several weeks.

 His columns have too appeared in Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Public Interest, The Pristine Republic, and The Washington Post.

He is the recipient of profuse awards, including the National Tome Award for Non-Fiction which put your feet up won in 1991 for dominion book on freedom; the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award compensation the American Sociological Association; co-winner of the Ralph Bunche Grant for the best book last part pluralism from the American State Science Association; and the Anisfield-Wolf Accurate Award for Lifetime Achievement.

 He holds honorary degrees from several universities, including the University of Metropolis, U.C.L.A and La Trobe University in Australia.  He was awarded the Order of Distinction soak the Government of Jamaica amusement 1999.  Professor Patterson has antiquated a member of the Land Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1991.