Patterson, Orlando, 1940-

LC control no.	n 50050679
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR6066.A875
Personal name heading	Patterson, Orlando, 1940- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Patterson, H. Orlando (Horace Orlando), 1940- Patterson, Horace Orlando, 1940-
Located	United States
Birth date	1940-06-05
Place of birth	Westmoreland (Jamaica)
Affiliation	University College of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica) London School of Economics and Political Science
Profession or occupation	College teachers Sociologists Novelists
Found in	His The children of Sisyphus, 1964. His Slavery as social death, 1982: CIP t.p. (Orlando Patterson) Info. from 678 field, Dec. 30, 2012 (Ph.D.) African American National Biography, accessed February 28, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Patterson, Orlando; educator, sociologist, fiction writer; born 05 June 1940 near Frome, Westmoreland, Jamaica; BS in Economics at the University College of the West Indies (1962); Ph.D. in sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE); published dissertation in The Sociology of Slavery: An Analysis of the Origins, Development, and Structure of Negro Slave Society in Jamaica, 1655-1838 (1967); taught sociology at the University of the West Indies, Mona (UWI); published three novels, Children of Sisyphus, a Jamaican classic, An Absence of Ruins, a campus novel, and, Die the Long Day, a historical fiction (1964, 1967, 1972); published trilogy known as,The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America's 'Racial' Crisis, followed by Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries (1997, 1998); honors include, the Ralph Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association and the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award of the American Sociological Association)