Petra Rivera-Rideau
Associate Professor of 美国研究
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Interdisciplinary scholar studying race and ethnic identities and popular culture in Latin America and U.S. Latina/o communities.
Broadly, my research examines the cultural politics of race in Latin American and Latinx communities. I am primarily interested in how ideas about Latinidad – or Latinx identities – are produced and circulate in US popular culture, especially popular music.
我的第一本书， Remixing Reggaeton: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico, focused on how the rap-reggae musical hybrid reggaeton offers new ways of thinking about Puerto Rico's relationship to the broader African diaspora. I argue that reggaeton's black diasporic politics disrupt dominant narratives of Puerto Ricanness that stress the island's ties to Spain. I have also published articles about reggaeton in journals such as Popular Music & 社会, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, and Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. My article “If I Were You: Tego Calderón’s Diasporic Interventions” (小斧) won the Blanca Silvestrini Prize for Best Article in Puerto Rican Studies from the Puerto Rico section of the Latin 美国研究 Association in 2019.我的第二本书， 健身嘉年华!: Selling Latinx Culture through Zumba, is forthcoming with Duke University Press. This project asks why Zumba Fitness, and Latinx popular culture more generally, is so popular 在 mainstream at the same time that anti-Latinx rhetoric and anti-im迁移 sentiment thrives 在 U.S. I consider how the Zumba Fitness brand both reproduces stereotypes of Latinx 文化 as fun, 异国情调的, 和性感, while simultaneously and contradictorily dismissing structural inequality and racism.
我还参与编辑了 Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism 在 Americas 与Jennifer A. Jones and Tianna S. Paschel. This interdisciplinary volume combines academic analysis, personal reflections, 面试, and photography to examine how different ideas about blackness travel across Latin America, the Spanish Caribbean, and the United States.
I am working on a new book project about contemporary globalization of Latin music and the groundbreaking success of Spanish-language artists 在 mainstream with my colleague Vanessa Díaz at Loyola Marymount University. Together, we created the 坏兔子教学大纲, a web网站 that provides resources that contextualize Bad Bunny’s success in relation to Puerto Rican politics, reggaetón 历史, and Latin crossovers. I recently served as a consultant for the videos about the history of reggaetón that Bad Bunny incorporated into his historic Coachella headlining set. I also developed one of the first courses about Bad Bunny 在 United States which I teach regularly: AMST 323: Bad Bunny: Race, 性别, and Empire in Reggaetón.
I frequently comment on reggaetón 在 media, both 在 US and internationally. My work has been featured in news outlets such as NPR, Agence France-Presse, 《皇冠体育》 (Spain), CBS 新闻, and 《皇冠体育官网》杂志. I have written for the 华盛顿邮报》 and PBS’s American Experience. Most recently, I wrote an accompanying essay that is archived with Daddy Yankee’s recording of “Gasolina” 在 National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.
一般, my courses consider the 历史, 文化, and representations of Latinx communities from a transnational perspective. 在韦尔斯利, I teach courses about Afro-Latinx identities, Latin music 在 US, Latinx popular culture, and race and culture in Puerto Rico. I also developed an introductory Ethnic Studies course with my colleague Genevieve Clutario.
When I'm not at work, I enjoy spending time with my family, 读小说, 去海滩, and cooking new foods.
教育
- B.A., Harvard University
- M.A., University of California, Berkeley
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Current and upcoming courses
This course offers an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Ethnic Studies. Ethnic Studies centers the theories, 历史, and perspectives of Black, 土著, Latinx, and Asian American people 在 United States, with particular attention to the study of comparative race and ethnic relations 在 United States and its empire. We will explore key themes and concepts in Ethnic Studies such as imperialism and colonialism, 社会运动, 迁移, and intersectionality using analysis of popular culture, and historical and current events.