Patterson O. Bringing Culture Back In: New approaches to the Problems of Black Youth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; Submitted.

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

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

Patterson O. The Culture of Sports. Journal of Historical Sociology. 2011;24(4):549-563. The Culture of Sports [full text]

Patterson O. Freedom and 9/11. Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. 2011;Summer 2011(21). Freedom and 9/11 [full text]

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. p. 139-151. The Mechanism of Cultural Reproduction: Explaining the Puzzle of Persistence [full text]

Patterson O. Equality. Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. 2009;Winter 2009(11). Equality [full text]

Patterson O. Black Americans. In: Schuck PH, Wilson JQ Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation. New York: Public Affairs; 2008. p. 375-410. Black Americans [full text]

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. p. 115 - 151. Freedom, Slavery, and the Modern Construction of Rights [full text]

Patterson O. About Public Sociology. In: Clawson D Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-First Century. University of California Press; 2007. About Public Sociology [full text]

Patterson O. The Ancient and Medieval Origins of Modern Freedom. In: Stouffer J, Mintz S The Problem of Evil. University of Massachusetts Press; 2006. p. 31-66. Website The Ancient and Medieval Origins of Modern Freedom [full text]

Patterson O, Kaufman J. Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket. American Sociological Review [Internet]. 2005;70(1):82-110. Website Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket [full text]

Patterson O. Culture and Continuity: Causal Structures in Socio-Cultural Persistence. In: Mohr J, Friedland R Matters of Culture: Cultural Sociology in Practice. Cambridge University Press; 2004. Culture and Continuity: Causal Structures in Socio-Cultural Persistence [full text]

Patterson O. Four Modes of Ethnosomatic Stratification: Blacks in Europe and the Americas. In: Loury G, Modood T, Teles S Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy Comparing the US and UK. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2004. Website Four Modes of Ethnosomatic Stratification: Blacks in Europe and the Americas [full text]

Patterson O. Helotic Slavery and Freedom. In: Luraghi N, Alcock S Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; 2003. p. Chap. 11. Website Eleven: Reflections on Helotic Slavery and Freedom [full text]

Patterson O. Beyond Compassion: Selfish Reasons for Being Unselfish. Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences [Internet]. 2002;131(1):26 - 38. Website Beyond Compassion: Selfish Reasons for Being Unselfish [full text]

Patterson O. Taking Culture Seriously: A Framework and an Afro-American Illustration. In: Harrison LE, Huntington SP Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. New York: Basic Books; 2001. p. 202-218. Taking Culture Seriously: A Framework and an Afro-American Illustration [full text]

Patterson O. Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries. Washington DC: Civitas/Counterpoint; 1998.

Patterson O. The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America's Racial Crisis. Washington DC: Civitas/Counterpoint; 1997.

Patterson O. Ecumenical America: Global Culture and the American Cosmos. World Policy Journal [Internet]. 1994;11(2):103-117. Website Ecumenical America: Global Culture and the American Cosmos [full text]

Patterson O. Freedom in the Making of Western Culture. New York: Basic Books; 1991.

Patterson O. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 1982.