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University of Pennsylvania.
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The Caribbean Exodus
(TheCaribbean Exodus is a welcome study of the historical,...)
TheCaribbean Exodus is a welcome study of the historical, cultural, geographic, and economic forces behind migrations from the Caribbean. Examining many regions, the contributors compare similarities and differences of the migrant experiences, both in their original countries and upon reaching their destinations.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0275921832/?tag=2022091-20
Reflections on a Puerto Rican Life: Benjy Lopez: A Picaresque Tale of Emigration and Return
(Hailed as a "masterpiece" in Newsweek magazine by Yale ar...)
Hailed as a "masterpiece" in Newsweek magazine by Yale art historian Robert Ferris Thompson, the life history of Benjy Lopez is now available in an expanded edition which includes Benjy Lopez's return and life in Puerto Rico as a successful businessman. This engaging autobiographical account is a pioneering vision exposing the half-truth that the typical experience of the ordinary Puerto Rican, particularly of the Puerto Rican transposed to New York City, is exclusively defined by privation, fear, prejudice, and culture shock. In so doing, Barry B. Levine successfully combats the myth of the victimized immigrant, proposing a picaresque sociology that acknowledges an actor's agency even under the most difficult circumstances.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558764844/?tag=2022091-20
The Caribbean Exodus by Barry Levine (1987-08-03)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F82BQXY/?tag=2022091-20
Barry Levine
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Levine received his Bachelor of Arts in 1961 from the University of Pennsylvania and his Doctor of Philosophy 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 United States, the Caribbean, Asia, and Latin America.
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Reflections on a Puerto Rican Life: Benjy Lopez: A Picaresque Tale of Emigration and Return
(Hailed as a "masterpiece" in Newsweek magazine by Yale ar...)
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The Caribbean Exodus
(TheCaribbean Exodus is a welcome study of the historical,...)
- Benjy Lopez. A Picaresque Tale Of Emigration And Return - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- The Caribbean Exodus by Barry Levine (1987-08-03)
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Reflections on a Puerto Rican Life: Benjy Lopez: A Picaresque Tale of Emigration and Return
