Petra R Rivera-Rideau
Biographic Data
| ID | 115879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petra R Rivera-Rideau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petra R |
| FAMILY NAME | Rivera-Rideau |
| SIGNATURE | RIVERA-RIDEAU P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8014-7349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Esta es mi tierra/Esta soy yo”
We woke up, on October 20, 2023, to a flutter of emails from students and colleagues: "Did you see Jimmy Fallon?" "OMG Bad Bunny wants to take our class!"While we were sleeping, international superstar Bad Bunny (Benito Martnez Ocasio) had discussed our classes on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.Between talking about Bad Bunny's new album Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Maana and his hosting gig on SNL, Fallon asked, "There's actually college cou…
When Tía Ate the Telegram
This essay applies Ren Ellis Neyra's concepts of defiance, solidarity, and mulitpoetic sensorial listening from The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics (2020) to the author's own family story about how her great-aunt ate the telegram announcing her brother's death in the Korean War. Through interpreting the story with multipoetic sensorial listening as a potential methodology, the author uncovers how this brief act so ing…
Reinventing Enrique Iglesias
If I Were You
In 2012, reggaeton artist Tego Calderón released a music video for his song “Robin Hood.” The video tells the story of a man who aids a group of undocumented Dominican immigrants to Puerto Rico. Through a close reading of “Robin Hood,” this essay argues that Calderón establishes connections between Puerto Ricans and Dominicans through an understanding of their shared marginalization as black subjects. This has important implications for African d…
Afro-Latin@s in Movement
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 explo
Cocolos Modernos
I argue that a cultural politics of blackness links salsa and reggaetón. This cultural politics of blackness denotes a particular positioning that not only calls attention to the processes of racial exclusion embedded within Puerto Rico's so-called racial democracy, but also situates the island within the broader African diaspora. Salsa and reggaetón are thus connected through a diasporic cultural politics that centers on blackness. Consequently,…
From Carolina to Loíza
This article considers the entanglements of race, culture and place in Puerto Rico. I analyse two distinct constructions of blackness that sustain racial hierarchies intrinsic to Puerto Rican ‘racial democracy’. First, ‘folkloric blackness’ is a static, historicised version of blackness that represents Puerto Rico’s African heritage without compromising the whitening bias of racial democracy discourse. A second construction of blackness that I te…
From Carolina to Loíza
This article considers the entanglements of race, culture and place in Puerto Rico. I analyse two distinct constructions of blackness that sustain racial hierarchies intrinsic to Puerto Rican ‘racial democracy’. First, ‘folkloric blackness’ is a static, historicised version of blackness that represents Puerto Rico’s African heritage without compromising the whitening bias of racial democracy discourse. A second construction of blackness that I te…
Cocolos Modernos
I argue that a cultural politics of blackness links salsa and reggaetón. This cultural politics of blackness denotes a particular positioning that not only calls attention to the processes of racial exclusion embedded within Puerto Rico's so-called racial democracy, but also situates the island within the broader African diaspora. Salsa and reggaetón are thus connected through a diasporic cultural politics that centers on blackness. Consequently,…
Reinventing Enrique Iglesias
If I Were You
In 2012, reggaeton artist Tego Calderón released a music video for his song “Robin Hood.” The video tells the story of a man who aids a group of undocumented Dominican immigrants to Puerto Rico. Through a close reading of “Robin Hood,” this essay argues that Calderón establishes connections between Puerto Ricans and Dominicans through an understanding of their shared marginalization as black subjects. This has important implications for African d…
Cocolos Modernos
I argue that a cultural politics of blackness links salsa and reggaetón. This cultural politics of blackness denotes a particular positioning that not only calls attention to the processes of racial exclusion embedded within Puerto Rico's so-called racial democracy, but also situates the island within the broader African diaspora. Salsa and reggaetón are thus connected through a diasporic cultural politics that centers on blackness. Consequently,…
From Carolina to Loíza
This article considers the entanglements of race, culture and place in Puerto Rico. I analyse two distinct constructions of blackness that sustain racial hierarchies intrinsic to Puerto Rican ‘racial democracy’. First, ‘folkloric blackness’ is a static, historicised version of blackness that represents Puerto Rico’s African heritage without compromising the whitening bias of racial democracy discourse. A second construction of blackness that I te…
Afro-Latin@s in Movement
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 explo
If I Were You
In 2012, reggaeton artist Tego Calderón released a music video for his song “Robin Hood.” The video tells the story of a man who aids a group of undocumented Dominican immigrants to Puerto Rico. Through a close reading of “Robin Hood,” this essay argues that Calderón establishes connections between Puerto Ricans and Dominicans through an understanding of their shared marginalization as black subjects. This has important implications for African d…
Reinventing Enrique Iglesias
When Tía Ate the Telegram
This essay applies Ren Ellis Neyra's concepts of defiance, solidarity, and mulitpoetic sensorial listening from The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics (2020) to the author's own family story about how her great-aunt ate the telegram announcing her brother's death in the Korean War. Through interpreting the story with multipoetic sensorial listening as a potential methodology, the author uncovers how this brief act so ing…
Esta es mi tierra/Esta soy yo”
We woke up, on October 20, 2023, to a flutter of emails from students and colleagues: "Did you see Jimmy Fallon?" "OMG Bad Bunny wants to take our class!"While we were sleeping, international superstar Bad Bunny (Benito Martnez Ocasio) had discussed our classes on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.Between talking about Bad Bunny's new album Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Maana and his hosting gig on SNL, Fallon asked, "There's actually college cou…
Latin American and Latino Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Ethnology (4 works)