Jen Roth-Gordon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona where she has taught racial and social justice classes to thousands of undergraduate and graduate students since 2004. Her first book, Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro, interrogates racial inequality and common beliefs in the superiority of whiteness and has been taught in university classes around the country. She is currently working on her second book on white middle-class parenting in the context of anti-blackness and racial violence. She has a multi-racial family with a white spouse, one white biological son, an adopted African American son, and an adopted African American daughter; all three of them were bar/bat mitzvahed at Temple Emanu-El/Kol Ami.