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This chapter examines the link between a perceived lack of opposition to the fiscal control board among the majority of the island population and the government and media’s anti-poor discourse. Exposing how public debt has been equated with a flawed moral character of the people—especially of those most marginal—this chapter sheds light on how a middle-class subject is formed out of a generalized disdain for the most downtrodden and an assumed lack of alternatives for social and political change.
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Rebollo Gil, G. (2018). How to Be Middle Class. In: Writing Puerto Rico. New Caribbean Studies. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92976-7_5
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