Professor Frances Negrón-Muntaner publishes an article called "Our Fellow Americans" in Dissent Magazine

Co-director of CSSD working group Unpayable Debt questions terminology use in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

Professor Frances Negrón-Muntaner, co-director of CSSD working group Unpayable Debt publishes an article, titled “Our Fellow Americans,” examining why calling Puerto Ricans “Americans” will not save them from the current challenges they face. Her article discusses the rhetorical explosion of the use of the phrase “our fellow Americans” to refer to Puerto Ricans in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and raises the question of why the sudden adoption of this phrase.

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