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Watch Online / 'Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?': A Cape Verdean American Story (2006)
Desc: 'Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?': A Cape Verdean American Story: Directed by Claire Andrade-Watkins. "Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?": A Cape Verdean American Story is the untold tragedy and scandal of what happened to a vibrant community of immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands in the Fox Point section of Providence, Rhode Island forcibly displaced by the construction of interstate I95, the expansion of Brown University, urban renewal and gentrification a to make way for the fancy coffee shops, antique stores, and elegantly restored houses. The first in a trilogy of feature documentaries about the Cape Verdean community in the Fox Point section of Providence, Rhode Island, the second, Working the Boats: Masters of the Craft was released in 2016.