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Date of Birth
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05-June-1940
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Place of Birth
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Westmoreland Parish
(Jamaica, Cornwall County, Jamaica)
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Nationality
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Jamaica, United States of America
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Profession
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Author, Sociologist, Writer, Novelist
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Orlando Patterson is a Jamaican-born American historical and cultural sociologist known for his work regarding issues of race in the United States, as well as the sociology of development. His book Freedom, Volume One, or Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction.
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