P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance, by creators of the “Bad Bunny Syllabus” Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, is slated for publication early next year (Duke University Press, February 2026). Looking forward to this!
Description: Global superstar Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, like many other Puerto Ricans, has lived a life marked by public crises—blackouts, hurricanes, political corruption and oppression, among others—that have exposed the ongoing impacts of colonialism in Puerto Rico. Offering a portrait of the past and future of Puerto Rican resistance through one of its loudest and proudest voices, P FKN R draws on interviews with musicians, politicians, and journalists as well as ethnographic research to set Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican resistance in an historical, political, and cultural context. Authors Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau—creators of the “Bad Bunny Syllabus”—demonstrate Bad Bunny’s place in a long tradition of infusing joy and protest into music and honor the many, evolving forms of daily resistance to oppression and colonialism that are part of Puerto Rican life.
Vanessa Díaz is Associate Professor at Loyola Marymount University and the author of Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood.
Petra R. Rivera-Rideau is Associate Professor at Wellesley College and the author of Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico and Fitness Fiesta!: Selling Latinx Culture through Zumba.
Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-3333-2 / Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4780-2988-5 / eISBN: 978-1-4780-6209-7 /
For more information, seehttps://dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r
See the BB Syllabus at https://www.badbunnysyllabus.com/
P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance, by creators of the “Bad Bunny Syllabus” Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, is slated for publication early next year (Duke University Press, February 2026). Looking forward to this! Description: Global superstar Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, like many other Puerto
