Remixing ReggaetónPuerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaetn, Petra R. Rivera Rideau shows how reggaetn musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging. Stars such as Tego Caldern criticize the Puerto Rican mainstream's tendency to praise