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Iris Zhan ’27 writes for the Swellesley Report about the debut of American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau and co-author Vanessa Díaz’s book “P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.”

Kiss 95.1 FM in Charlotte, N.C., featured a segment on American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau and co-author Vanessa Díaz’s new book on Bad Bunny and their Bad Bunny syllabus.

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American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau told La Tercera that while Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show doesn’t change societal inequalities, it brought the situation in Puerto Rico to the forefront.

Petra Rivera-Rideau co-writes an essay for the New York Times about Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl: “[H]is performance was unapologetically political. And you know what? It was a party, too.”

American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau and Loyola Marymount University professor Vanessa Díaz write in Rolling Stone about the symbols and meanings in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show.

Bad Bunny, resistance, and the Super Bowl halftime show: American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau appears on NPR’s Code Switch.

In a time of anti-immigrant rhetoric, said Petra Rivera-Rideau, American studies professor and co-author of a book about Bad Bunny, his presence “because of this political context, is a statement.”

American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau wrote the book on Bad Bunny. NPR’s A Martinez asks her what to expect from the Puerto Rican superstar at the Super Bowl this weekend.