Barry B. Levine

Barry B. Levine (1941 - 10 August 2020) was 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.

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.[1]

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.

Selected 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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References
  1. My Turn: Mambo On My Mind
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