Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

Bad Bunny, el primer hispano en ganar el Grammy al Mejor Álbum del Año por Debí Tirar Más Fotos. La historia detrás del mito: cómo Bad Bunny cambió las reglas.Como la de innumerables puertorriqueños,

Puerto Rico is often depicted as a racial democracy in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaetón, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaetón musicians critique racial democracys privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging. Stars such as Tego Calderon criticize the Puerto Rican mainstreams tendency to praise black culture but neglecting and marginalizing the islands black population, while Ivy Queen, the genres most visible woman, disrupts the associations between whiteness and respectability that support official discourses of racial democracy. From censorship campaigns on the island that sought to devalue reggaeton, to its subsequent mass marketing to U.S. Latino listeners, Rivera-Rideau traces reggaetons origins and its transformation from the music of San Juans slums into a global pop phenomenon. Reggaeton, she demonstrates, provides a language to speak about the black presence in Puerto Rico and a way to build links between the island and the African diaspora.

Through a collection of theoretically engaging and empirically grounded texts, this book examines African-descended populations in Latin America and Afro-Latin@s in the United States in order to explore questions of black identity and representation, transnationalism, and diaspora in the Americas.