IN THE NOVELS of Jodi Picoult, terrible things happen to children of middle-class parentage: they become terminally ill, or are maimed, gunned down, killed in accidents, molested, abducted, bullied, traumatized, stirred to violence.
Though the stamp on her Portuguese identity card categorized her, she tells voters, as "a second-class citizen," her parentage entitled her to a first-class life.
Of middle-class Jewish immigrant parentage, he attended high school in New York City and graduated from Brown University in 1924.
As a Derek Jeter-like figure of racially mixed parentage and class-crossing charisma, Mr. Sunjata exudes the relaxed confidence of a man who takes his divinity for granted.
It's a strong section on housing, trading on Kumar's status as a middle-class man of Indian parentage, half of whose identity is being catered to while the other half gets socially cleansed.
Political institutions that were supposed to reconcile a divided society are ineffective; ethnic quotas at all levels of government breed nepotism; children study in classes divided according to their parentage; economic development has stagnated.
But, for the moment, he's in full flow remembering his formative years as an only child – of Indian-South African (mum) and Iraqi (dad) parentage – raised by his mother in working class Tooting in the 1970s and 1980s.
Some of us have upper-class backgrounds; others have "real" salt-of-the-earth parentage.
Pablo was an accountant's son, of African-Caribbean and Asian parentage; he grew up in Kingston's middle-class Havendale district.
Its parentage has bestowed Lewis with Grade I-listed Heritage Drama status.
Analysis of the MH class IIα and IIβ PBR in five families of known parentage demonstrates that genetic variation at both loci is inherited in a Mendelian fashion.
