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Title: Benjy Lopez: A Picaresque Tale of Emigration and Return by Barry B. Levine ISBN: 0-465-00653-1 Publisher: Transaction Pub Pub. Date: July, 1987 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $32.95

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Comment: ``Barry Levine has that increasingly rare gift, the sociological ear. In this book we have the result of his listening-patiently, sensitively, with a fine feeling for nuance to what I'm sure must be one of the most colorful characters in sociological literature.'' Peter L. Berger on the dust jacket of Benjy Lopez ``This book is intended as a positive alternative to much testimonial literature about Puerto Ricans/Neoricans in which they appear as passive victims... The sad absurdity of racial and cultural prejudice is illuminated... Highly recommended.'' Joanna Walsh in Library Journal ``An attempt to redress the balance in the sociological literature about Puerto Ricans... providing a more balanced view of Puerto Rican migrants and of the acculturation process.'' Frank Fernández in Revista/Review Interamericana ``In this book one reads a few paragraphs at random only to find them so interesting that one turns to the first page and reads every page. Benjy is a good antidote to those who believe that the culture of poverty concept is all but divinely inspired... Valuable research, excellent writing.'' Raymond E. Crist in Latin America in Books ``Professor Levine's book is both a labor of love for Puerto Rico and its plight and a fine piece of scholarship.'' Ed Vega in Nuestro ``Bringing to Lopez's story advanced instruments of social science, an effective interpretative scheme, and a solid sociological background, Levine has rescued Third World man from indignity... Few works will better demonstrate the circum-stances of the Puerto Rican in New York than this one by Levine.'' Miguel Barnet in ``A Man and His Potential,'' Caribbean Review. The review appeared in Spanish in Opiniones Latinoamericanas, titled: ``Un puertorrequeño contra el sistema.'' ``I applaud his attempt to give a different picture of Puerto Rican life, one not ridden with despair and resignation like many other writers... have done.'' Helen I. Safa in ``A Tale of Wit and Woe,'' Caribbean Review ``Ojala que Barry Levine, quien con tanto acierto ha sabido comunicamos la personalidad de este hombre puertorrequeño de nuestra epoca, ofrezca en algún momento nuevas noticias que vayan completando esta apasionante `historia picaresca'...'' Juan Mart¡nez Capó in ``Libros de Puerto Rico,'' El Mundo (San Juan) ``Acaba de aparecer un estupendo libro... Tras esa historia aparentemente vulgar, se esconde algo realmente conmovedor: la lucha de un imigrante de origen hispano para ser respetado y apreciado... La labor de selecci¢n de informaci¢n hecha por Barry Levine puede considerarse ejemplar. Ahí estan en ese magnífico libro todas las luchas... de miles de puertorrequeños.'' Carlos AIberto Montaner on the Spanish International Television Network ``A rare work about the Puerto Rican diaspora that leaves the reader on the whole more cheerful when he finishes reading than when he started.'' Gerald Guinness in ``Beating the System,'' Américas. The same review also appeared in Spanish under the title ``Cómo burlar el sistema.'' A similar review by the same author appeared in the San Juan Star under the title ``The Puerto Rican Hustle: Beating the System'' ``Benjy's story is much more interesting and refreshing than the countless one-dimensional sociological studies of Caribbean and Latin American emigrants to the U.S., or Mediterranean emigrants to Western Europe.'' Aaron Segal in The Times of the America. This review also appeared in Worldview [Benjy's life] ``opens the reader's eyes to the problems and challenges, the pain and frustration of life as a Puerto Rican in the big metropolis.'' Joseph P. Fitzpatrick in ``Is There Hope for Puerto Ricans?,'' a review essay in Contemporary Sociology ``A good read... but above and beyond its literary attributes, it stands on its own as a well-conceived, thoroughly researched, and solid study. A significant contribution to the scientific analysis of the causes and consequences of Puerto Rican emigration and return.'' Angel Calderdón Cruz in Caribbean Studies ``A stupendous book that only a sociologist/anthropologist willing and unafraid to let a little humanism and common sense creep into his study could write. A very human document about a very human being.'' Gary Brana-Shute in Bijdragen (Liden) `Levine's simpatico study reveals unique kinds of resourcefulness and suffering that elevate Benjy from a `type' into a subject of human concern.'' W. Marvin Will and Edward M. Dew in Choice ``Levine does not believe that the migration experience is one of failure and for this reason he writes a success story.'' Carolina Hospital in Latinamericanist A nasty little attack appears in Marvin A. Lewis, ``The Puerto Rican in Popular U.S. Literature: A Culturalist Perspective,'' in Asela Rodríguez de Laguna, ed., Images and Identities: The Puerto Rican in Literature, (New Jersey: Transaction Books) and in Imágines e Identitades: el puertorriqueño en la literatura (Río Piedras: Editorial Huracán) A critical essay appeared in Revista de Ciencias Sociales (San Juan), Vol. XXll, Nos. 1 & 2 (March-June 1980), 187-98. Reviews also appeared in La Critica Sociologica (Rome), Sociogische Gide (Amsterdam) and Social Science Journal. Book notes have appeared in: Kirkus Review (15 February 1980); Publishers Weekly (22 February 1980), and Booklist (15 June 1980).