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Petra R. Rivera-Rideau does an outstanding job explaining the contradictory power dynamics behind the representations of blackness in Puerto Rico. In exploring the ways in which racial identities get re-structured, re-organized, and even elided through the music industry, Rivera-Rideau provides a significant contribution and a brilliant intervention into studies on race, blackness, and popular music in Puerto Rico. --Frances Aparicio, author of Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures

An engaging intersectional exploration of reggaeton in the context of Puerto Rican racial politics, with a focus on how Afro-'diasporic resources' are deployed to counter the insidiousness of racial democracy discourses. Building upon ethnography, musical and performance analysis, and an expansive bibliography focused on racial politics, diasporic blackness, and popular culture, Remixing Reggaeton features a provocative exploration of Puerto Rican blackness(es) and the multiple ways they can be embodied, performed, perceived, and explained. --Raquel Z. Rivera, coeditor of Reggaeton

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Petra R. Rivera-Rideau is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Virginia Tech.

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