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Orlando Patterson

Born

in Westmoreland, Jamaica

June 05, 1940

Website

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Genre

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Orlando Patterson is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University; the author of Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and Slavery and Social Death; and the editor of The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth, for which he was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. His work has been honored by the American Sociological Association and the American Political Science Association, among others, and he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as Special Advisor for Social Policy and Development to Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley and was awarded the Order of Distinction by the Government of Jamaica.

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Average rating: 4.13 · 758 ratings · 94 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study 4.32 avg rating — 399 ratings — published 1982 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Children of Sisyphus (Longman Caribbean Writers Series) 3.82 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1964 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture 4.17 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1991 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament 4.20 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rituals Of Blood: The Consequences Of Slavery In Two American Centuries 3.70 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ordeal Of Integration: Progress And Resentment In America's ""Racial"" Crisis 3.64 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth by Orlando Patterson (Editor), Ethan Fosse (With), Andrew Clarkwest (Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sociology of Slavery: An Analysis of the Origins, Development, and Structure of Negro Slave Society in Jamaica 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1969 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Absence of Ruins 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die the Long Day 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1973 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Religion explains how it is possible to relate to the dead who still live. It says little about how ordinary people should relate to the living who are dead.”
― Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, With a New Preface

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“institution but the embarrassing institution.”
― Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, With a New Preface

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“enslaved person is given a new name and a new identity as a whore.”19 A nine-country study by a team of clinical psychologists headed by Melissa Farley found that 68 percent of sex slaves suffered symptoms of post–traumatic stress disorder. The study concluded that, “existing in a state of social death, the prostitute is an outsider who is seen as having no honor or public worth. Those in prostitution, like slaves and concentration camp prisoners, may lose their identities as individuals, becoming primarily what masters, Nazis or customers want them to be.”20”
― Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, With a New Preface

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