Petra Rivera-Rideau is assistant professor of American studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Remixing Reggaeton: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico (Duke University Press 2015). She is also co-editor with Jennifer Jones and Tianna Paschel of Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming May 2016).