Jamaicans You Must Know: Sociologist, Historian and Novelist Orlando Patterson

Jamaica has produced no shortage of world-class thinkers, and among them is Orlando Patterson, OJ OM the Jamaican-born sociologist, historian, novelist and public intellectual whose work has helped shape global understanding of slavery, freedom, race and postcolonial society. Born Horace Orlando Patterson in Westmoreland, Jamaica, on June 5, 1940, Patterson grew up in May Pen, […]