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American sociologist (born )

Tukufu Zuberi
Tukufu Zuberi ()
Born	Antonio McDaniel () April 26, (age&#;65) Oakland, California, United States
Occupation	sociologist, professor, TV individuality, social critic, documentary filmmaker, writer,
Alma&#;mater	San Jose State(BA) Sacramento State(MA) University of Chicago(PhD)
Genre	Sociology, filmmaking, history
Subject	Sociology, history, Africa

Tukufu Zuberi (born April 26, ) is an American sociologist, filmmaker, social critic, educator, and writer.

Zuberi has appeared in several documentaries on Africa and the African diaspora, including Liberia: America's Stepchild (), and Years Later (). He is one of the hosts of the long-running PBS program History Detectives.

As founder of his own performance company,^[1][2] he produced the movie African Independence, which premiered at the San Diego Black Movie Festival in January He is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, professor and chair of the sociology department, and professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

This groundbreaking study of South Africa provides a unique look at the interplay of demographic, social and economic processes in a society undergoing rapid change as a result of the implode of apartheid. These census information are complemented by large-scale domesticated surveys and data from a partial registration system to explore the relationships among various demographic, economic, and social phenomena. For the first time the demographic consequences of both the longer-term impact of apartheid policies and the policies of the modern South Africa are examined and compared. This comprehensive reference links the demographic behavior of South Africa's various population groups to social, economic, and political inequalities created by policies of separate and unequal development.

Biography

Born Antonio McDaniel to Willie and Annie McDaniel, and raised in the housing projects of Oakland, California in the s, he changed his name to Tukufu Zuberi, which is Swahili for "beyond praise" and "strength".

Zuberi says that he "took the entitle because of a desire to make and have a connection with an important period where people were challenging what it means to be a human being."^[3][4]

Zuberi received a bachelor's degree from San Jose State in , a master's degree from Sacramento State in , and a PhD from the University of Chicago in In , he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he became the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, the chair of the sociology department between and , and the director of the Center for Africana Studies between and ^[5] He has been a visiting professor at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

Zuberi's research focuses on race and African and African diaspora populations. He has conducted research in the fields of social statistics and population studies (demography). He has been a guest lecturer at colleges and universities and on television programs.

In , Zuberi produced his first documentary, African Independence. The film premiered at the San Diego Black Film Festival in January ^[6] The film discusses the beginning of the autonomy movement and the problems faced by the movement to triumph independence in Africa.^[7][8]

Educational career

Professor Tukufu Zuberi is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, and Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tukufu Zuberi facts for kids - Kids encyclopedia: Tukufu Zuberi (born April 26, ) is an American sociologist, filmmaker, social critic, educator, and penner. Zuberi has appeared in several documentaries on Africa and the African diaspora, including Liberia: America's Stepchild (), and Years Later (). He is one of the hosts of the long-running PBS program History Detectives.

He has been a visiting professor at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda; the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania; in he held the chair of the Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil; and in he served as the distinguished visiting professor for the Coordination Foundation for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel- CAPES at the University of Brasilia and the Federal University of Bahia.

During his time at the University of Pennsylvania he has served as the chair of the Graduate Group in Demography, the director of the African Studies Program, the director of the Afro-American Studies Program, and faculty associate director of the Center for Africana Studies.

From to , he served as the founding director of the Center for Africana Studies. From to , he served as chair of the department of sociology.

Zuberi's educational career ranges from teaching to formal demographic investigation, archival creation and research, writing, curator of museum exhibitions, hosting a TV series (the PBS History Detectives), and producing and directing documentaries.

His work is collaborative, interdisciplinary, and academically rigorous. His work ranges from the hard social sciences to the softest of the humanities.

His research interests have focused on sociology, demography, and Africana Studies.

Zuberi is the author of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth-Century", published by the University of Chicago Compress in ; "Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie", published by the University of Minnesota Press in ; "Más espeso que la sangre: la mentira del análisis estadístico según teorías biológicas de la raza", published by Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in ; and "Africa Independence: How Africa Shapes the World", published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers in He has edited or co-edited eight volumes.

These edited volumes include "White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology" (with Eduardo Bonilla-Silva) that was awarded the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award by the American Sociological Association.^[9]

Curatorial Projects

Zuberi is the curator of several exhibitions.

Tukufu Zuberi born April 26, is an American sociologist, filmmaker, social critic, educator, and penner. Zuberi has appeared in several documentaries on Africa and the African diaspora, including Liberia: America's Stepchildand Years Later As founder of his own production business, he produced the film African Independencewhich premiered at the San Diego Black Film Festival in January He is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, professor and chair of the sociology department, and professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

He curated Tides of Freedom: African Presence on the Delaware at the Autonomy Seaport Museum (Premiered in May ). He produced and directed five interstitials for inclusion in the Tides of Freedom gallery. His exhibition, Black Bodies in Propaganda: The Art of the War Poster premiered at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in June Black Bodies in Propaganda presents 33 posters from Zuberi's secret collection.

The Black Bodies in Propaganda exhibit was also presented at the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle, Washington (), and at the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma (). Professor Zuberi curated the redesign of the Penn Museum Africa Gallery "AFRICA GALLERIES from Maker to Museum" ().

He directed ten interstitials for inclusion in the AFRICA GALLERIES from Maker to Museum gallery. ^[10]

African Census Study Project

Zuberi has headed the African Census Analysis Project (ACAP), a project initiated by the Together Nations to advance the process of census enumeration in Africa.

Although census-taking eventually became routine, the preservation and analysis of the resultant data were not fully developed within African statistical offices. In recognition of the need to preserve African census data, to avoid perpetual decline due to poor storage, and to encourage and enhance further analysis, dissemination, and utilization of the massive census data, ACAP was undertaken as a shared initiative of the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania and African governmental and research institutions.

Tukufu Zuberi born April 26, is an American sociologist, filmmaker, social critic, educator, and writer. Zuberi has appeared in several documentaries on Africa and the African diasporaincluding Liberia: America's Stepchildand Years Later As founder of his own movie company, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] he produced the film African Independencewhich premiered at the San Diego Black Movie Festival in January He is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, professor and chair of the sociology department, and professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

The goal was to promote collaboration among African governments and analyze institutions at archiving and studying African census data, both at national and sub-national levels, and to inform appropriate policy interventions on the continent.

History Detectives

Zuberi is a host on the PBS television program History Detectives.

The show devotes itself "to exploring the complexities of historical mysteries, searching out the truths, myths and conundrums that link local folklore, family legends and interesting objects."^[11] Zuberi has taken the audience on an enquiry by racing around Death Valley in a Ford roadster and tracked down a Japanese internment camp survivor.^[12] Producer of the show, Tony Tackaberry says "Along with his expertise, Tukufu has a strong, engaging, excited traits that comes through."^[13]

Documentary Projects

He is the writer and producer of African Independence, a feature-length documentary film that highlights the birth, realization, and problems confronted by the movement to win autonomy in Africa.

African Independence was selected and featured at over a dozen film festivals, and was the recipient of various awards. Completed in , his feature-length documentary on the history of ancient Ghana, Mali, and Songhay is entitled Before Things Fell Apart ().

His most recent short documentary on African material culture in museums is entitled Decolonizing the Narrative: Africa Galleries from Maker to Museum (). The first in a series of 3 short documentaries, Africa Galleries from Maker to Museum, is a minute exploration of the debates about Museums, Reparations; Restitution; and Race.

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Publications

Book Projects

• Tukufu Zuberi. African Independence: How Africa Shapes the World (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, ).
• Tukufu Zuberi. Thicker Than Blood: An Essay on how Racial Statistics Lie (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Push, ).

  Honorable Mention for the Gustavus Myers Book Award.

  Dr. Tukufu Zuberi is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, and Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Zuberi’s vision is dedicated to education as a professor, documentary maker, television host, and museum curator.

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• Antonio McDaniel. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth-Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ).

Edited volumes

• Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (editors).

  White Logic, White Methods: Race and Methodology (New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., ) — Winner of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, American Sociological Association.

• Tukufu Zuberi, Amson Sibanda and Eric Udjo (editors).

  The Demography of South Africa Volume 1 of the General Demography of Africa series, General Editor Tukufu Zuberi (New York: M.E. Sharpe, ).

Edited journal issues

• Tukufu Zuberi and Tanji Gilliam (Special Editors), "Perspectives on Africa and the World".

  The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, November , vol. ( pages).

• Tukufu Zuberi and Gale Garrison (guest editors), "Back to the Future of Civilization: Celebrating 30 Years of African American Studies". Special Issue of Journal of Black Studies , Vol.

  35, Number 2.

• Tukufu Zuberi (guest editor), "Racial Statistics and Widespread Policy".
  Sociology, University of Chicago, M. Sociology, San Jose Express University, He is dedicated to bringing a fresh view of culture and society to the public through various platforms such as guest lecturing at universities, television programs, and interactive social media. Currently, he works on human rights initiatives by participating in public speaking engagements, international collaborations with transnational organizations, and individuals dedicated to human equality.

  Special issue of Race and Society (mistakenly listed as on volume cover), Volume 4, Issue 2 ( pages).

• Laura Chrisman, Farah Griffin and Tukufu Zuberi (guest editors), "Transcending Traditions: African, African Diaspora, and African American Studies in the 21st Century", Special issue of Black Scholar , Vol.

  30, No. (80 pages).

• Elijah Anderson and Tukufu Zuberi (guest editors) "The Study of African American Problems: Papers In Honor of W.E.B. Du Bois". Special issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , vol.

  ( pages).

Selected video clips

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