Name Barry Levine | ||
Education University of Pennsylvania Books Benjy Lopez, Reflections on a Puerto Rican Life: Benjy Lopez : a Picaresque Tale of Emigration and Return | ||
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.
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.
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.