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'''Tukufu Zuberi''' (born April 26, 1959, in Oakland, California) is a sociologist, social critic, educator, and writer. He is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, and Professor and Chair of the [[Sociology]] Department at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]. Zuberi has appeared in several documentaries on Africa and the [[African diaspora]], including Liberia: America's Stepchild (2002), and [[500 Years Later]] (2005). He is also one of the stars in the [[PBS]] program ''[[History Detectives]]''.
''Tukufu Zuberi''' (born April 26, 1959, in Oakland, California) is a sociologist, social critic, educator, and writer. He is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, and Professor and Chair of the [[Sociology]] Department at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]. Zuberi has appeared in several documentaries on Africa and the [[African diaspora]], including Liberia: America's Stepchild (2002), and [[500 Years Later]] (2005). He is also one of the stars in the [[PBS]] program ''[[History Detectives]]''.
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==Biography==
==Biography==
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Born Antonio McDaniel to Willie and Annie McDaniel, and raised in the housing projects of Oakland, California in the 1970s, he changed his name to Tukufu Zuberi - [[Swahili language|Swahili]] for “beyond praise” and “strength.” “I took the name 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.”<ref name=un>{{cite web|title=The 16th Annual Celebration of the International Day of Older Persons|url=http://www.un.org/ageing/documents/Intlday/idop_prgrm06.pdf|format=PDF|work=Improving the Quality of Life for Older Persons: Advancing United Nations Global Strategies|publisher=United Nations|accessdate=04 October 2006}}</ref> Zuberi says.<ref>Barb Karg 2008, ''The History Detectives: Explore Lincoln's Letter, Parker's Sax and Mark Twain's Watch''John Wiley and sons, Inc., page xv</ref>
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]. 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.


Dr. Zuberi’s research focuses on Race, African and [[African Diaspora]] populations. He developed and expanded the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been a visiting professor at [[Makerere University]] in Kampala, Uganda and the [[University of Dar es Salaam]] in Tanzania. Professor Zuberi holds a doctorate from the [[University of Chicago]], is the author or editor of several books, articles, essays, and reviews, and has received numerous awards for his academic work.
Tukufu Zuberi is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]. Additionally, he is Chair of the Sociology department and the Director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The Center for Africana Studies was established in September 2002 to understand the effect of African culture and the African diaspora to further explore it means to be a human being. <ref> Greg Benson November/December 2002, New Home, Name, and Faculty for Afro-American Studies The Pennsylvania Gazette, page 21</ref>
He has also been a visiting professor at Mekerere University in [[Kampala]], [[Uganda]] and the [[University of Dar es Salaam]] in [[Tanzania]]. He currently directs the African Census Analysis Project (ACAP), an international collaboration with African Nations.


[[File:HER Council.JPG|HER Council|thumb|left| The Human Equality and Respect Council at the [[World Economic Forum]], 2008. from the left: [[Dennis Frank Thompson]], [[Conor Gearty]], Tukufu Zuberi, [[Amy Gutmann]], [[Achille Mbembe]], [[Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela]], [[Elie Wiesel]], [[Thomas Sugrue]], Dru C. Gladney, [[Homi K. Bhabha]]]]
[[File:HER Council.JPG|HER Council|thumb|left| The Human Equality and Respect Council at the [[World Economic Forum]], 2008. From left: [[Dennis Frank Thompson]], [[Conor Gearty]], Tukufu Zuberi, [[Amy Gutmann]], [[Achille Mbembe]], [[Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela]], [[Elie Wiesel]], [[Thomas Sugrue]], Dru C. Gladney, [[Homi K. Bhabha]]]]


Zuberi’s research focuses on Race, African and [[African Diaspora]] populations. He developed and expanded the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Zuberi holds a [[doctorate]] from the [[University of Chicago]], is the author or editor of several books, articles, essays, and reviews, and has received numerous awards for his academic work. He is dedicated to bringing a fresh view of culture and society to the public. He is a regular guest lecturer at colleges and universities across the country and internationally, and on various television programs.
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Born Antonio McDaniel to Willie and Annie McDaniel, and raised in the housing projects of Oakland, California, he embraced the name Tukufu Zuberi - [[Swahili language|Swahili]] for “beyond praise” and “strength.” He has said “I took the name 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.”<ref name=un>{{cite web|title=The 16th Annual Celebration of the International Day of Older Persons|url=http://www.un.org/ageing/documents/Intlday/idop_prgrm06.pdf|format=PDF|work=Improving the Quality of Life for Older Persons: Advancing United Nations Global Strategies|publisher=United Nations|accessdate=4 October 2006}}</ref>


Dr. 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 Press]] in 1995; and Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie, published by the [[University of Minnesota Press]] in 2001. He has just completed a manuscript on the history of the Sudan, entitled The Rise and Fall of Timbuktu. He is the series editor of the “General Demography of Africa” (a multi-volume series). He has written more than 50 scholarly articles, and edited or co-edited eight volumes.
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 Press]] in 1995; and ''Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie'', published by the [[University of Minnesota Press]] in 2001. He has just completed a manuscript on the history of the [[Sudan]]. He is the series editor of the ''General Demography of Africa'' (a multi-volume series). He has written more than 50 scholarly articles and co-edited eight volumes.


Dr. Zuberi is popularly known as a host on the hit Public Broadcasting System [[PBS]] series, [[History Detectives]]. History Detectives is devoted to exploring the complexities of historical mysteries, searching out the facts, myths and conundrums that connect local folklore, family legends and interesting objects. Currently filming the ninth season, History Detectives regularly shows the way individual objects can serve as a lens into the past. As a History Detective, Dr. Zuberi is an observer of the social and cultural forces that shape historical mysteries in America society.
Zuberi is popularly known as a host on the hit Public Broadcasting System [[PBS]] series, [[History Detectives]]. History Detectives is devoted to exploring the complexities of historical mysteries, searching out the facts, myths and conundrums that connect local folklore, family legends and interesting objects. Currently filming the ninth season, History Detectives regularly shows the way individual objects can serve as a lens into the past. As a History Detective, Zuberi is an observer of the social and cultural forces that shape historical mysteries in America society.


==ACAP==
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In recognition of the need to preserve African census data in order to avoid perpetual loss due to poor storage and also the need to encourage and enhance further analysis, dissemination, and utilization of the massive census data, ACAP was undertaken as a joint initiative of the Population Studies Center, [[University of Pennsylvania]] and African research and governmental institutions. This was to allow for collaboration with various African governments and research institutions at archiving and analyzing African census data, both at national and sub-national levels, in order to inform appropriate policy interventions on the continent.
In recognition of the need to preserve African census data in order to avoid perpetual loss due to poor storage and also the need to encourage and enhance further analysis, dissemination, and utilization of the massive census data, ACAP was undertaken as a joint initiative of the Population Studies Center, [[University of Pennsylvania]] and African research and governmental institutions. This was to allow for collaboration with various African governments and research institutions at archiving and analyzing African census data, both at national and sub-national levels, in order to inform appropriate policy interventions on the continent.


[[File:Kerner+Forty09-1.jpg‎|thumb|right|The Kerner Plus 40 Symposium, 2008. From the left: Tukufu Zuberi, Former U.S. President [[William Jefferson Clinton]], and DeWayne Wickham]]
[[File:Kerner+Forty09-1.jpg‎|thumb|right|The Kerner Plus 40 Symposium, 2008. From left: Tukufu Zuberi, Former U.S. President [[William Jefferson Clinton]], and DeWayne Wickham]]


==International Activities==
==International activities==
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| [[Afro-Colombian]] Month sponsored by Colombia es Pasion.<ref>http://www.colombiaespasion.com/</ref> (International expert panelist)
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==History Detectives==
==History Detectives==


Dr. Tukufu Zuberi is an expert host on the PBS television program known as History Detectives. The show devotes itself to "to exploring the complexities of historical mysteries, searching out the facts, myths and conundrums that connect local folklore, family legends and interesting objects." <ref>Sarah Jordan et al. November 2001, 76 Revolutionary Minds, Philadelphia Magazine page 145</ref> Among the many episodes where Dr. Zuberi takes the audience on an engaging investigation by racing around Death Valley in a 1932 Ford Roadster or tracking down a Japanese internment camp survivor.<ref>Barb Karg 2008, ''The History Detectives: Explore Lincoln's Letter, Parker's Sax and Mark Twain's Watch''John Wiley and sons, Inc., page xv</ref>
Tukufu Zuberi is an expert host on the PBS television program known as History Detectives. The show devotes itself to "to exploring the complexities of historical mysteries, searching out the facts, myths and conundrums that connect local folklore, family legends and interesting objects." <ref> Sarah Jordan et al. November 2001, 76 Revolutionary Minds, Philadelphia Magazine page 145</ref> Among the many episodes where Zuberi takes the audience on an engaging investigation by racing around Death Valley in a 1932 Ford Roadster or tracking down a Japanese internment camp survivor. <ref>Barb Karg 2008, ''The History Detectives: Explore Lincoln's Letter, Parker's Sax and Mark Twain's Watch''John Wiley and sons, Inc., page xv</ref>
Producer of the show, Tony Tackaberry says “Along with his expertise, [Tukufu] has a strong, engaging, excited personality that comes through.” <ref>http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2007/07/detecting_more_than_history.html Detecting More Than History? (PBS Ombudsman)</ref>
Producer of the show, Tony Tackaberry says “Along with his expertise, Tukufu has a strong, engaging, excited personality that comes through.” <ref>http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2007/07/detecting_more_than_history.html Detecting More Than History? (PBS Ombudsman)</ref>


A complete listing of Dr. Zuberi’s investigations on the show can be found in the History Detectives Archives.<ref>http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigations/detective_tukufu.html</ref>
A complete listing of Zuberi’s investigations on the show can be found in the History Detectives Archives. <ref>http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigations/detective_tukufu.html</ref>

==Racial Statistics==

Racial statistics are complex, and preconceived biases necessarily govern the way one thinks about them. The racial statistics that are currently consumed publicly tend to treat race as an objectively determined collection of discrete categories. Adding to this problem, many researchers argue that race causes a person to be in a certain condition or state, when the most that has been demonstrated is an association of undetermined causes. These statistical fallacies in race research are endemic, and subvert even the most sympathetic attempts to address questions about race, quantitatively.<ref>Betty Wood, “Race & Society,” Elseiver Science Inc., 2001 vol. 4 page 115</ref>

Further information about Dr. Zuberi's ideas on racial statistics can be found in his works and these references.<ref>Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, '''White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology''' (New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2008)</ref><ref>Tukufu Zuberi, '''Racial Statistics and Public Policy''', Special issue of ''Race & Society'', 2003, Vol 4, Issue 2 (132 pages)</ref><ref>Tukufu Zuberi, '''Thicker Than Blood: An Essay on how Racial Statistics Lie''' (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001)</ref><ref>Elijah Anderson and Tukufu Zuberi, ''The Study of African American Problems: Papers In Honor of W.E.B DuBois'', Special issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2000, Vol. 568 (316 pages)</ref>


==Publications==
==Publications==
He has written two books and more than 50 scholarly articles and has co-edited five volumes. He has done profound work in the fields of [[social statistics]] and [[population studies]] (demography).
He has written two books and more than 50 scholarly articles and has co-edited five volumes. He has done profound work in the fields of [[social statistics]] and [[population studies]] (demography).


===Books===
===Books===
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===Edited Journal Volumes===
===Edited Journal Volumes===
*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 2010 vol. 632 (132 pages)
*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 2010 vol. 632 (132 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'' 2004, Vol. 35, Number 2
*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'' 2004, Vol. 35, Number 2
*Tukufu Zuberi (Guest editor), Racial Statistics and Public Policy. ''Special issue of Race and Society'' 2003 (mistakenly listed as 2001 on volume cover), Volume 4, Issue 2 (132 pages)
*Tukufu Zuberi (Guest editor), Racial Statistics and Public Policy. ''Special issue of Race and Society'' 2003 (mistakenly listed as 2001 on volume cover), Volume 4, Issue 2 (132 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'' 2000, Vol. 30, No. 3-4 (80 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'' 2000, Vol. 30, No. 3-4 (80 pages).
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===Selected Video Clips===
===Selected Video Clips===

* [http://video.pbs.org/video/1497149367/ History Detectives- Fan Q&A]
* [http://video.pbs.org/video/1497149367/ History Detectives- Fan Q&A]
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* [http://www.africanholocaust.net/html_ah/holocaustspecial.htm#lost How Many in the Slave Trade]

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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h406IAfB7gc Global Agenda Summit-Dubai-2008]
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* [http://www.africanholocaust.net/html_ah/holocaustspecial.htm#lost How Many in the Slave Trade]
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICGRyECbu0E Divided and Dangerous: Human History from a Different Angle]

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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h406IAfB7gc Global Agenda Summit-Dubai-2008]

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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICGRyECbu0E Divided and Dangerous: Human History from a Different Angle]


==References==
==References==
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Revision as of 23:42, 17 August 2011

Tukufu Zuberi' (born April 26, 1959, in Oakland, California) is a sociologist, social critic, educator, and writer. He is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, and Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Zuberi has appeared in several documentaries on Africa and the African diaspora, including Liberia: America's Stepchild (2002), and 500 Years Later (2005). He is also one of the stars in the PBS program History Detectives.

Tukufu Zuberi
File:Tzscholarship.jpg
Born (1959-04-26) April 26, 1959 (age 65)
Oakland, California, United States
Occupationsociologist, professor, TV personality, social critic, documentary filmmaker, writer,
NationalityUnited States
Alma materSan Jose State (B.A.)
University of Chicago (Ph.D)
Genresociology, history, literature, Africa
SubjectSociology


Biography

Born Antonio McDaniel to Willie and Annie McDaniel, and raised in the housing projects of Oakland, California in the 1970s, he changed his name to Tukufu Zuberi - Swahili for “beyond praise” and “strength.” “I took the name 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.”[1] Zuberi says.[2]

Tukufu Zuberi is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he is Chair of the Sociology department and the Director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The Center for Africana Studies was established in September 2002 to understand the effect of African culture and the African diaspora to further explore it means to be a human being. [3] He has also been a visiting professor at Mekerere University in Kampala, Uganda and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. He currently directs the African Census Analysis Project (ACAP), an international collaboration with African Nations.

The Human Equality and Respect Council at the World Economic Forum, 2008. From left: Dennis Frank Thompson, Conor Gearty, Tukufu Zuberi, Amy Gutmann, Achille Mbembe, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Elie Wiesel, Thomas Sugrue, Dru C. Gladney, Homi K. Bhabha

Zuberi’s research focuses on Race, African and African Diaspora populations. He developed and expanded the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Zuberi holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago, is the author or editor of several books, articles, essays, and reviews, and has received numerous awards for his academic work. He is dedicated to bringing a fresh view of culture and society to the public. He is a regular guest lecturer at colleges and universities across the country and internationally, and on various television programs.

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 Press in 1995; and Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2001. He has just completed a manuscript on the history of the Sudan. He is the series editor of the General Demography of Africa (a multi-volume series). He has written more than 50 scholarly articles and co-edited eight volumes.

Zuberi is popularly known as a host on the hit Public Broadcasting System PBS series, History Detectives. History Detectives is devoted to exploring the complexities of historical mysteries, searching out the facts, myths and conundrums that connect local folklore, family legends and interesting objects. Currently filming the ninth season, History Detectives regularly shows the way individual objects can serve as a lens into the past. As a History Detective, Zuberi is an observer of the social and cultural forces that shape historical mysteries in America society.

ACAP

Professor Zuberi has spearheaded several major research projects, including the African Census Analysis Project (ACAP). The United Nations declared 1960 the Year of Africa in response to the spread of independence and liberation movements across the African continent. With this newly founded independence, very few African countries had conducted a true census of their populations. Since, census collection is primarily a political process; it reflects the political situation in the nation as well as serving the data needs of demographic researchers. Population enumerations in colonial Africa were no more than headcounts conducted by colonial administrators, and the well being of the population was not a major consideration. These headcounts provided estimates of the “available manpower” for fiscal and military purposes for the colonial administration. While they were not scientifically executed, these counts served the basic administrative needs at the time.

In order to advance the process of census enumeration in Africa the UN developed the African Census Project. This project helped improve census-taking on the African continent. However, while the census-taking project itself became standard, the preservation and analysis of these data was not fully developed within the various African statistical offices.

In recognition of the need to preserve African census data in order to avoid perpetual loss due to poor storage and also the need to encourage and enhance further analysis, dissemination, and utilization of the massive census data, ACAP was undertaken as a joint initiative of the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania and African research and governmental institutions. This was to allow for collaboration with various African governments and research institutions at archiving and analyzing African census data, both at national and sub-national levels, in order to inform appropriate policy interventions on the continent.

The Kerner Plus 40 Symposium, 2008. From left: Tukufu Zuberi, Former U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton, and DeWayne Wickham

International activities

International Activity
Year Activity Location
1989 Makerere University (Professor of African Demography) Kampala, Uganda
1990–1991 University of Dar es Salaam (Professor of African Demography) Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
1993 Workshop on Male Role in Contraception in Sub-Saharan Africa (organizer) University of Pennsylvania
1995–2005 Summer Institute for Demographic Research (organizer) University of Pennsylvania
1996 African Dissertation “Distance Training” Workshop (organizer) University of Pennsylvania
1997 Workshop on the African Census Project (organizer) University of Pennsylvania
Du Bois Collective Colloquium Series (organizer) University of Pennsylvania
1998–present 2nd Workshop on the African Census Analysis Project (ACAP) [4] (organizer) Pretoria, South Africa
1999 “The Study of African American Problems: Papers Presented in Honor of W.E.B. Du Bois” (organizer) University of Pennsylvania
“Workshop on the African Census Analysis Project,” A 10 day workshop at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference Center (organizer) Bellagio, Italy
2000 Transcending Tradition: African, African-American, and Diaspora Studies in the 21st Century Conference (organizer) University of Pennsylvania
Racial Statistics and Public Policy Conference (organizer) University of Pennsylvania
2001 International Expert Group Meeting on Mechanisms for Ensuring Continuity of 10-Year Population Censuses: Strategies for Reducing Census Costs and African Census Analysis Project Meeting (presenter) Pretoria, South Africa
“Social Change and the Demography of Africa: Evidence from the Analysis of Census Data” presented by the African Census Analysis Project [5] (organizer) Dakar, Senegal
2002 “Demography and Health in Africa,” An International Workshop with African Scholars in the ACAP and INDEPTH projects. (organizer) Bellagio, Italy
2003 “Data Needs for District Level Planning in Uganda,” An International Workshop with African Scholars in the ACAP and INDEPTH projects. (organizer) Kampala, Uganda
2004 “From African Demography to African Population Studies: Memory and the Future,” 47th Annual Meetings of the African Studies Association (participant) New Orleans, Louisiana
2005 “The Demography of South Africa” Book Launch (co-editor) Pretoria, South Africa
“Census in the 21st Century: Improving Data Utilization and Dissemination, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)” XXV International Population Conference (panelist) Tours, France
2006 “Improving the Quality of Life for Older Persons:

Advancing United Nations Global Strategies” (panelist)

United Nations Headquarters, New York City, NY
“Les systemes d’information en demographie et en sciences sociales Nouvelles question, nouveaux outils?” at Chaire Quetelet 2006 (speaker) Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
“Strengthening South Africa’s Reconstruction and Development Program Through Poverty Mapping” at Statistics South Africa (Internal) Workshop (speaker) Pretoria, South Africa
“Statistics Forum: Africa Counts,” presented by the African Census Analysis Project (organizer) Durban, South Africa
2007 “Memoires et demographie: Regards croises au Sud et au Nord” 7th Journees scientificqudes du Reseau Demographie (presenter) Praia, Cape Verde
“2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses: Workshop on Advocacy for Use of Census Data and Resource Mobilization” (presenter) Université Laval, Quebec
2008 Kerner Plus 40 Report Conference (organizer) University of Pennsylvania and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
World Economic Forum, Global Agenda Council on Human Equality and Respect (participant) Dubai, United Arab Emirates
3rd Annual Conference of the Population Association Convention, “Deracializing Social Statistics and Quantifying Underrepresented Groups” (plenary speaker) Durban, South Africa
2009 “Perspectives on Africa and the World” (organizer) University of Pennsylvania
World Economic Forum, "Shaping the Post-Crisis World" (panelist) Davos, Switzerland
Louis Towers and Palenke in Concert (co-host) Philadelphia, PA
World Economic Forum, Global Agenda Council on Values (participant) Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Afro-Colombian Month sponsored by Colombia es Pasion. [6] (International expert panelist) Bogota, Colombia
“Issue of the Moment: The Changing Face of Race” (speaker) United Nations Headquarters, New York City, NY
2010 African Presidential Roundtable (participant) Dar es Salaam Tanzania
World Economic Forum, Global Agenda Council on Human Rights (participant) Dubai, United Arab Emirates

History Detectives

Tukufu Zuberi is an expert host on the PBS television program known as History Detectives. The show devotes itself to "to exploring the complexities of historical mysteries, searching out the facts, myths and conundrums that connect local folklore, family legends and interesting objects." [7] Among the many episodes where Zuberi takes the audience on an engaging investigation by racing around Death Valley in a 1932 Ford Roadster or tracking down a Japanese internment camp survivor. [8] Producer of the show, Tony Tackaberry says “Along with his expertise, Tukufu has a strong, engaging, excited personality that comes through.” [9]

A complete listing of Zuberi’s investigations on the show can be found in the History Detectives Archives. [10]

Publications

He has written two books and more than 50 scholarly articles and has co-edited five volumes. He has done profound work in the fields of social statistics and population studies (demography).

Books

  • Tukufu Zuberi. Thicker Than Blood: An Essay on how Racial Statistics Lie (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001). Honorable Mention for the 2002 Gustavus Myers Book Award.
  • Antonio McDaniel. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth-Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995)

Edited Volumes

  • Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (editors). White Logic, White Methods: Race and Methodology (New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008) Winner of the 2009 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, 2005).

Edited Journal Volumes

  • 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 2010 vol. 632 (132 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 2004, Vol. 35, Number 2
  • Tukufu Zuberi (Guest editor), Racial Statistics and Public Policy. Special issue of Race and Society 2003 (mistakenly listed as 2001 on volume cover), Volume 4, Issue 2 (132 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 2000, Vol. 30, No. 3-4 (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 2000, vol. 568 (316 pages)

Selected Video Clips

References

  1. ^ "The 16th Annual Celebration of the International Day of Older Persons" (PDF). Improving the Quality of Life for Older Persons: Advancing United Nations Global Strategies. United Nations. Retrieved 04 October 2006. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. ^ Barb Karg 2008, The History Detectives: Explore Lincoln's Letter, Parker's Sax and Mark Twain's WatchJohn Wiley and sons, Inc., page xv
  3. ^ Greg Benson November/December 2002, New Home, Name, and Faculty for Afro-American Studies The Pennsylvania Gazette, page 21
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  5. ^ http://www.acap.upenn.edu/events/historical.php
  6. ^ http://www.colombiaespasion.com/
  7. ^ Sarah Jordan et al. November 2001, 76 Revolutionary Minds, Philadelphia Magazine page 145
  8. ^ Barb Karg 2008, The History Detectives: Explore Lincoln's Letter, Parker's Sax and Mark Twain's WatchJohn Wiley and sons, Inc., page xv
  9. ^ http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2007/07/detecting_more_than_history.html Detecting More Than History? (PBS Ombudsman)
  10. ^ http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigations/detective_tukufu.html

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