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Associate Professor of Anthropology

Ph.D., Anthropology, Stanford University, 2002

Research interests: Linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, critical race theory, racial hierarchy, urban studies, shantytown youth, Brazilian Hip Hop movement

Area studies courses: Youth, Language and Culture; Race, Language and Culture; Race in the Americas

Selected Publications

Roth-Gordon, Jennifer.  Forthcoming.  Racing and Erasing the Playboy:  How Slang Creates Identity, Ideology, and Meaning in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

Roth-Gordon, Jennifer.  2002.  Hip Hop Brasileiro: Brazilian Youth and Alternative Black Consciousness Movements, Black Arts Quarterly 7(1): 9-10.