Barry B. Levine

Barry B. Levine (born 1941) is an American academic and founding professor of Sociology at the Florida International University.

Academic career

Levine received his B.A. in 1961 from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D in 1973 from the New School for Social Research. He held a teaching position at the University of Puerto Rico for seven years before leaving for FIU in 1972. He is well-liked by his students because of his charismatic lecture style and witty sense of humor, as well as his regard for Sociologist Max Weber.

In 1969, he cofounded and edited "Caribbean Review", an English-language quarterly journal focused on the culture and ideals of the Caribbean, Latin America and their emigrant groups.

He is perhaps best known for penning "Benjy Lopez" which received much acclaim; most recently in a February, 2008, "Newsweek" article written by art historian Robert Farris Thompson. [ [http://www.newsweek.com/id/112774 My Turn: Mambo On My Mind] ]

He is currently writing "Global Pants: Who Gets to Make What for Whom". A first-person testimonial about a 77-year-old garment manufacturer who has had factories throughout the US, the Caribbean, Asia, and Latin America.

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Select Bibliography

*"El Desafío Neoliberal : El Fin del Tercermundismo en América Latina", 1992
*"The Caribbean Exodus", 1987
*"The New Cuban Presence in the Caribbean", 1983
*"Benjy Lopez, A Picaresque Tale of Emigration and Return", 1980
*"Problemas de Desigualdad Social en Puerto Rico", 1972

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