"You see," he continued, "there are the black and Puerto Rican classes".
IN "Nothing Like the Holidays" (Dec. 12), Alfredo de Villa's tragicomedy of manners good and bad, the scattered members of a middle-class Puerto Rican family come together in Chicago for Christmas.
Freddy Rodriguez, 'Nothing Like the Holidays' IN "Nothing Like the Holidays" (Dec. 12), Alfredo de Villa's tragicomedy of manners good and bad, the scattered members of a middle-class Puerto Rican family come together in Chicago for Christmas.
For the most part, unlike Dominican and Haitians, Cubans were in Puerto Rico with documents and they joined the Puerto Rican middle class, and prospered as professionals and entrepreneurs.
This is about being here for years and years, so when someone comes by and sees this, they'll say, 'Man, those Puerto Ricans had class.
The decade of the 70's was the time of the city's greatest population loss -- "the arch decade of white flight," in the words of John H. Mollenkopf, director of the Center for Urban Research at the City University Graduate Center, and also the first decade in which black and Puerto Rican middle-class families left the city along with whites.
This is also attributed to Queen responding to the criticism she has received in the past for looking like a tomboy, wearing baggy pants and larger shirts, from the Puerto Rican press, middle class and members of the older generation, a subject Queen addresses in her autobiography, Detrás Del Glamour (Behind Glamour).
Both are children of working-class Puerto Rican parents.
A hiccup of time ago, trekking to Wynwood, a working-class Puerto Rican neighborhood, was a test in urban fortitude.
Last month, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund filed a class-action suit charging that the department had overstepped its authority by appropriating federal responsibility for immigration, overriding state law on issuing licenses and ignoring due process.
