Selected Publications

Forthcoming
Patterson O. The Mechanisms of Cultural Reproduction: Explaining the Puzzle of Persistence. In: John R. Hall The Handbook of Cultural Sociology. 2nd ed. Routledge ; Forthcoming.
Patterson O, Zhuo X. Modern Trafficking, Slavery, and Other Forms of Servitude. Annual Review of Sociology. Forthcoming;44.
2017
Patterson O. Revisiting Slavery, Property, and Social Death. In: Bodel J, Scheidel W On Human Bondage: After Slavery and Social Death. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley Blackwell ; 2017. pp. 265-296.
Patterson O. Freedom, Slavery, and Identity in Renaissance Florence: The Faces of Leon Battista Alberti. In: Schmidtz D, Pavel C The Oxford Handbook of Freedom. Oxford University Press ; 2017.
2016
Patterson O. The Secret of Jamaica's Runners. The New York Times. 2016 :SR2. Link to article
2015
Patterson O. From One Out-In to Another: What's Missing in Wacquant's Structural Analysis. Urban Studies. 2015. pdf
Patterson O. The Real Problem with America's Inner Cities. New York Times. 2015 :SR6. Publisher's Version
The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth
Patterson O, Fosse E. The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 2015. Publisher's Site
2014
Patterson O. Making Sense of Culture. Annual Review of Sociology. 2014;40 :1-30. Making Sense of Culture
Patterson O. How Sociologists Made Themselves Irrelevant. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2014. Publisher's Version
2011
Patterson O. The Culture of Sports. Journal of Historical Sociology. 2011;24 (4) :549-563. The Culture of Sports [full text]

(in conversation with Alan Tomlinson and Christopher Young)

Patterson O. Trafficking, Gender & Slavery: Past and Present, in The Legal Parameters of Slavery: Historical to the Contemporary. Harvard Law School: The Hourston Institute ; 2011. trafficking_gender_slavery_12_20_11_cambria__autosaved_.pdf

Revised version.

Patterson O. The Post-Black Condition. The New York Times. 2011. The Post-Black Condition [full text]

A book review of "Who's Afraid of Post Blackness? What it Means to be Black Now." by Touré.

Patterson O. Freedom and 9/11. Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. 2011;Summer 2011 (21). Freedom and 9/11 [full text]
2010
Patterson O. The Mechanisms of Cultural Reproduction: Explaining the Puzzle of Persistence. In: Hall JR, Grindstaff L, Lo M-C Handbook of Cultural Sociology. New York: Routledge ; 2010. pp. 139-151. The Mechanism of Cultural Reproduction: Explaining the Puzzle of Persistence [full text]
2009
Patterson O. Equality. Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. 2009;Winter 2009 (11). Equality [full text]
2008
Patterson O. Black Americans. In: Schuck PH, Wilson JQ Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation. New York: Public Affairs ; 2008. pp. 375-410. Black Americans [full text]
Freedom, Slavery, and the Modern Construction of Rights
Patterson O. Freedom, Slavery, and the Modern Construction of Rights. In: Joas H, Wiegandt K The Cultural Values of Europe. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press ; 2008. pp. 115 - 151. Freedom, Slavery, and the Modern Construction of Rights [full text]

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