Word: rican
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...great sexual dividing line -- homosexuals. Heterosexuals are assumed to be the majority, while gays and lesbians are thought to be a "minority," analogous to African Americans, Latinos or any other ethnic group. Thus we have Gay Pride marches, just as we have St. Patrick's Day parades or Puerto Rican Day. Gay militants have even rallied, in some cities, around the idea of a "queer nation...
...hardest things to do is to get the different types of Latinos in one room," said Edmundo Jonzalez '95, president of the Harvard Forum on Hispanic Affairs. "People think of Latinos or Hispanics as a group and that's it, but within that you have Mexican and Puerto Rican and different groups from Latin America, and you have people born in Latin America. It's hard, and this organization seems to have overcome that...
...workers interviewed were divided on Hicks' claims that employees segregate themselves by race. Hicks asserted that a large majority of Portuguese employees avoid contact with a minority of Black, white and Puerto Rican workers...
Hicks also said overtime hours were unfairly distributed to favor Portuguese and white employees over Black and Puerto Rican employees. According to dated records of cook's overtime, Hicks and other Black and Puerto Rican employees were allowed to work less than 40 hours of over- time, while white and Portuguese employees worked between 70 and 180 hours of overtime each in the 15 months from September 1991 and December 1992. The union's contract says that overtime hours must be distributed fairly between employees...
Sanchez, who focuses his writings largely on Puerto Rican culture and cultural history, is best known for his 1976 novel La Gauaracha de Macho Camacho (Macho Camacho's Beat). He teaches one semester at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras and one semester at CUNY each year