Robert S Levine
Biographic Data
| ID | 135883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert S Levine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert S |
| FAMILY NAME | Levine |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINE R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor College of Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6476-0701 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Local Politics and Teenage Firearm Homicide: A Descriptive Study of America’s Most Populous Urban Peer Counties
Firearm homicides are a leading cause of death among American teens. While the impact of gun laws has received attention, the effects of political election outcomes over time as a determinant of health have received far less attention. Teen firearm homicide rates for 2001–2020 are therefore described according to race/ethnicity and mayoral political competition in two peer county groups, each matched for 19 socio-demographic factors. Non-Hispanic…
Structural Violence and Political Competition: Accounting for an Insidious Killer With Evidence From Texas Counties
When we think about violence in America, what typically comes to mind is the kinetic type of violence, committed by individuals, that takes the form of mass killings. This type of violence is horrific and generates universal revulsion, but there is another type of violence that is less noticeable, and neither captures the full attention of the media nor is a topic that involves policy discussions in a way that mass violence sometimes does. This i…
The Upstream Determinants of Violence
Violence remains a central criminal justice and public health concern, yet policy discussions often narrow analysis to crime, punishment, and individual behavior. A broader framework is needed. Manuscripts in the special issue examine violence as a product of upstream political choices, institutional design, fiscal priorities, fragmented governance, unequal exposure to injury, access to health care, government services availability, and political…
Political Determinants of Health: Mayoral Governance and Deaths of Despair in Urban American Peer Counties
Deaths of despair (15+ years) are described for two peer county groups. Each county experienced competitive, transitional, or monopoly governance based on the duration of one political party’s control. Highest mortality among non-Hispanic Black (Black) people occurred in monopolies, affecting all age-sex-specific groups from 15–19 to 65–69. Transition to Democratic or Republican party monopolies produced similar overall trends. Governance by the …
Restorative Alternatives: A Panel Data Analysis of Adult and Juvenile Policy Choices on Violent Crime
To date, much of the local, state, and federal policy designed and implemented regarding violent crime has followed principles of retributive justice, with a punitive approach toward offenders. This approach stands in contrast to restorative justice, which emphasizes inclusion of victims’ rights and relationships between offender, victim, and community. To address the effectiveness of these policies, we use state-level panel data to test the impa…
Politics, Partisanship, and Violence
Violence remains a long-standing wicked problem because political, institutional, and fiscal choices shape how violence is defined, measured, and addressed. This special issue synthesizes contributions and uses public health framing to reposition violence as a measurable outcome. We draw together work on deaths of despair, structural violence, firearm homicide, restorative justice, recidivism, institutional cycling, and interagency response to id…
The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies takes stock of critical developments over the past twenty years, offering a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in this field. In eclectic fashion, it presents a wide range of new approaches in such areas as print and material culture, Black studies, Latinx studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, postsecular studies, and Indigenous studies. This volume also maps ou…
Probability or confidence, a distinction without a difference
How analytic uncertainty is presented can affect critical policymaker decisions. Analysts are told to offer separate: (1) assessments of the likelihood an analytic statement is true and (2) confidence statements that express how strongly analysts believe their assessments. The distinction between likelihood and confidence sounds clear but is not. The IC defines confidence poorly. Most intelligence products fail to distinguish likelihood from conf…
Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée
Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging Louisiana’s law segregating railroad cars, Tourgée published more than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as…
Racial Inequalities in Mortality from Pediatric Asthma in the United States: Clinical and Public Health Challenges
In the United States (US), morbidity and mortality from pediatric asthma are increasing. We explored racial inequities using the Multiple Causes of Death Files of the US National Center for Health Statistics and the Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) for 1–14-year-olds from 1999 to 2018. We obtained mortality rates, Black:White mortality rate ratios (MRRs) and Annual Percent Change (APC). We tested for significance with …
Teaching in the Multiracial Classroom: "Reconsidering "Benito Cerenon
Hemispheric American Studies
This landmark collection brings together a range of exciting new comparative work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric studies. Scholars working in the fields of Latin American studies, Asian American studies, American studies, American literature, African Diaspora studies, and comparative literature address the urgent question of how scholars might reframe disciplinary boundaries within the broad area of what is generally called American studi…
The Recuperative Past in Siemerling’s The Black Atlantic Reconsidered
Central to Siemerling’s impressive study of black Canadian writing is an optimism about the recuperative potential of historical knowledge. My contribution to the forum acknowledges that potential, while raising questions about the limits of such knowledge for addressing the persistence of racist ideologies and practices. My test case is Siemerling’s fine reading of Lawrence Hill’s novels
Lower Mortality Rates from Cryptococcosis in Women and Whites with Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the United States
Cryptococcosis is an opportunistic mycotic infection often found in pigeon droppings and other bird excrement. This serious disease is often fatal and, not unexpectedly, far more common in patients with immune deficiency, including those with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It has been hypothesized that women with cryptococcosis and HIV have a more favorable mortality experience than men. In addition, the availability of highly active anti-re…
Accidental Infant Suffocation and Strangulation in Bed: Disparities and Opportunities
Racial Equality in Infant Outcomes: A Call to Action
Racial Equality in Infant Outcomes: A Call to Action Joedrecka S. Brown Speights MD, Samantha S. Goldfarb DrPH, MPH, Robert S. Levine MD, and George Rust MD, MPH Affiliation Joedrecka S. Brown Speights is with the Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee. Samantha S. Goldfarb is with the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, Florida State University College of Medic…
Commentary: Contextualizing And Rereading The Heroic Slave
Historical Misfeasance
State-Level Progress in Reducing the Black–White Infant Mortality Gap, United States, 1999–2013
Objectives. To assess state-level progress on eliminating racial disparities in infant mortality. Methods. Using linked infant birth–death files from 1999 to 2013, we calculated state-level 3-year rolling average infant mortality rates (IMRs) and Black–White IMR ratios. We also calculated percentage improvement and a projected year for achieving equality if current trend lines are sustained. Results. We found substantial state-level variation in …
The Lives of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass’s changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in his many conflicting accounts of events during his journey from slavery to freedom. Robert S. Levine creates a fascinating collage of this elusive subject—revisionist biography at its best, offering new perspectives on Douglass the social reformer, orator, and writer.
Lives of Frederick Douglass
Parenting style and perceptions of children’s weight among US Hispanics: A qualitative analysis: Table 1
Parental perceptions of their children's weight status may limit their willingness to participate in or acknowledge the importance of early interventions to prevent childhood obesity. This study aimed to examine potential differences in Hispanic mothers' and fathers' perceptions of childhood obesity, lifestyle behaviors and communication preferences to inform the development of culturally appropriate childhood obesity interventions. A qualitative…
Heart Failure Hospitalization by Race/Ethnicity, Gender and Age in California: Implications for Prevention
Health inequality in HF persists as hospitalization rates for Blacks remain higher compared with Whites and Hispanics. These findings reinforce the need to determine whether increased access to providers, or implementing proven hypertension and diabetes preventive programs among minorities might reduce subsequent hospitalization for HF in these populations
Time from Screening Mammography to Biopsy and from Biopsy to Breast Cancer Treatment among Black and White, Women Medicare Beneficiaries Not Participating in a Health Maintenance Organization
The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition
Protection of Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations During an Influenza Pandemic
Racial/ethnic minority populations experience worse health outcomes than do other groups during and after disasters. Evidence for a differential impact from pandemic influenza includes both higher rates of underlying health conditions in minority populations, increasing their risk of influenza-related complications, and larger socioeconomic (e.g., access to health care), cultural, educational, and linguistic barriers to adoption of pandemic inter…
State-Level Progress in Reducing the Black–White Infant Mortality Gap, United States, 1999–2013
Objectives. To assess state-level progress on eliminating racial disparities in infant mortality. Methods. Using linked infant birth–death files from 1999 to 2013, we calculated state-level 3-year rolling average infant mortality rates (IMRs) and Black–White IMR ratios. We also calculated percentage improvement and a projected year for achieving equality if current trend lines are sustained. Results. We found substantial state-level variation in …
Black–White Mortality From HIV in the United States Before and After Introduction of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in 1996
Objectives. We sought to describe Black–White differences in HIV disease mortality before and after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART). Methods. Black–White mortality from HIV is described for the nation as a whole. We performed regression analyses to predict county-level mortality for Black men aged 25–84 years and the corresponding Black:White male mortality ratios (disparities) in 140 counties with reliable Blac…
Increased Black–White Disparities in Mortality After the Introduction of Lifesaving Innovations: A Possible Consequence of US Federal Laws
Objectives. We explored whether the introduction of 3 lifesaving innovations introduced between 1989 and 1996 increased, decreased, or had no effect on disparities in Black–White mortality in the United States through 2006. Methods. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data were used to assess disease-, age-, gender-, and race-specific changes in mortality after the introduction of highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) for treatment…
Triangulating on Success: Innovation, Public Health, Medical Care, and Cause-Specific US Mortality Rates Over a Half Century (1950–2000)
To identify successes in improving America's health, we identified disease categories that appeared on vital statistics lists of leading causes of death in the US adult population in either 1950 or 2000, and that experienced at least a 50% reduction in age-adjusted death rates from their peak level to their lowest point between 1950 and 2000. Of the 9 cause-of-death categories that achieved this 50% reduction, literature review suggests that 7 cl…
Representative Words: Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776-1865
Pernambuco in the Brazilian Federation, 1889-1937
The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition
Why praise Jews: Satire and history in the middle ages
Modern readers, including highly sophisticated, professional historians, have not always understood that medieval praise of jews, in its rare occurrences, never signifies categorical approval of Israelites. Instead, such praise functions as a condemnation, sometimes explicit, sometimes implicit, of Christians whose behavior is not even equal to that of the lowest members of society. The elaborate story told by Richard of Devizes about the murder,…
Occupational Risk Factors for Selected Cancers Among African American and White Men in the United States
Objectives. This study examined occupational risks for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and soft-tissue sarcoma among African American and White men. Methods. Race-specific multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted using data from a large US population-based case–control study. Results. Significant occupational risks were limited to African Americans; chromium was associated with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (odds ratio [OR] = …
Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville
Historicism Old and New
Uncle Tom's Cabin in Frederick Douglass' Paper: An Analysis of Reception
Hawthorne's American Travel Sketches
An analysis of associative behavior and creativity
An analysis of associative behavior and creativity
The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change
The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world. Even before publication, eminent historians, sociologists, and religious scholars in the United States and Europea-among them, Gordon Wood, Philippe Aries, William Clebsch, and Robert Nisbet-hailed it as a pathbreaking, provocative, and exciting work, a terse, urbane, learned, clear, humane volume
Democracy and the Novel: Popular Resistance to Classic American Writers
Old Brick: Charles Chauncy of Boston, 1705-1787
Pernambuco in the Brazilian Federation, 1889-1937
Why praise Jews: Satire and history in the middle ages
Modern readers, including highly sophisticated, professional historians, have not always understood that medieval praise of jews, in its rare occurrences, never signifies categorical approval of Israelites. Instead, such praise functions as a condemnation, sometimes explicit, sometimes implicit, of Christians whose behavior is not even equal to that of the lowest members of society. The elaborate story told by Richard of Devizes about the murder,…
Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville
Robert Levine has examined the American romance in a historical context. His book offers a fresh reading of the genre, establishing its importance to American culture between the founding of the republic and the Civil war. With convincing historical and literary detail, Levine shows that anxieties about various subversive elements - French revolutionaries, secret societies, Catholic immigrants, African slaves - are central to the fictional worlds…
Historicism Old and New
Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville
Hawthorne's American Travel Sketches
Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville
Journal Article Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville. By Robert S. Levine. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. x + 302 pp. $37.50.) Get access Mary Kupiec Cayton Mary Kupiec Cayton Miami University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1345, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078296 Published: 01 March…
Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville
Uncle Tom's Cabin in Frederick Douglass' Paper: An Analysis of Reception
Representative Words: Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776-1865
Disturbing Boundaries: Temperance, Black Elevation, and Violence in Frank J. Webb's The Garies and Their Friends
At the inaugural 1837 meeting of the American Moral Reform Society, one of Philadelphia's many African American reform groups, William Whipper called for blacks to commit themselves to total abstinence and “temperance in all things.” The group itself offered a resolution that subsumed a number of social desires and reforms under the rubric of temperance: “ Resolved , That the successful promotion of all the principles of the Moral Reform Society,…
Teaching in the Multiracial Classroom: "Reconsidering Melville's "Benito Cereno
Journal Article Reconsideration: Teaching in the Multiracial Classroom: Reconsidering Melville’s “Benito Cereno” Get access Robert S. Levine Robert S. Levine University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 19, Issue 1, March 1994, Pages 111–120, https://doi.org/10.2307/467792 Published: 01 March 1994
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville is intended to provide a critical introduction to Melville's work. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume, and provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career. All of Melville's key works, including Moby-Dick, Typee, White Jacket, The Tambourine in Glory and The Confidence Man, are examined, as well as most of his poetry and short fiction. Written at a level both challenging an…
Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity
Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity
Journal Article Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity. By Robert S. Levine. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiv, 314 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2323-6. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4633-3.) Get access Richard Blackett Richard Blackett University of Houston, Houston, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity
The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel
American novels written in the wake of the Revolution overflow with self-conscious theatricality and impassioned excess. In this study, the author shows that these sentimental, melodramatic, and gothic works can be read as an emotional history of the early Republic, reflecting the hate, anger, fear, and grief that tormented the Federalist era. Stern argues that these novels gave voice to a collective mourning over the violence of the Revolution a…
Cultural Orphans in America
Pierre's Blackened Hand
The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848-1876
Examining the social and intellectual collision of the American reform tradition with immigrant Marxism during the Reconstruction era, this text charts the rise and fall of the International Workingman's Association (IWA). The IWA's attraction to American reformers (including those involved in women's rights), the effect they had on the American Left, and the reasons behind their ultimate purging from the IWA by more orthodox Marxists are all exa…
Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity
The differences between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilationist versus separatist. Now Robert S. Levine restores the relationship of these two important nineteenth-century African American writers to its original complexity. He explores their debates over issues like abolitionism, emigration, and nationalism, illuminating each man's influence on the other's political vi…
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