Abstract
In April 2018, somebody painted over a mural in the Julia de Burgos public school’s cafeteria, turning the wall into a blank, off-white slate. The mural’s erasure symbolically encapsulates a combination of forces that are behind the radical transformation of public schools and colleges in Puerto Rico: the colonial relationship the island has with the United States after the latter took possession of it in 1898; Puerto Rico’s unpayable debt, partly triggered and exacerbated precisely by its colonial condition; and the takeover of the island by disaster capitalism in the wake of the debt default and hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 824-829 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2022 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- colonialism
- debt
- disaster capitalism
- education
- human rights
- public education
- Puerto Rico
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Education