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Tukufu Zuberi

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#861

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#321

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Tukufu Zuberi's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Masters Sociology University of Chicago
Bachelors Sociology University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Tukufu Zuberi 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 500 Years Later . He is one of the hosts of the long-running PBS program History Detectives. As founder of his own production company, he produced the film African Independence, which premiered at the San Diego Black Film Festival in January 2013. 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.

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Tukufu Zuberi's Published Works

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White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology (2008) (385)
Thicker Than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie (2001) (330)
A Theory of Immigration And Racial Stratification (1997) (129)
Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities. (1992) (117)
Racial Differences in Household and Family Structure at the Turn of the Century (1993) (111)
Deracializing Social Statistics: Problems in the Quantification of Race (2000) (74)
Fertility Levels, Differentials, and Trends (2005) (72)
MOTHERS, FATHERS, AND CHILDREN: REGIONAL PATTERNS IN CHILD-PARENT RESIDENCE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (1996) (71)
Racial classification and the modern census in South Africa, 1911-1996 (2001) (49)
African Emigres in the United States: A Missing Link in Africa's Social and Economic Development. (1991) (41)
Historical Racial Differences in Living Arrangements of Children (1994) (40)
How Do Migrants Fare in a Post-Apartheid South African Labor Market? 1 (2004) (36)
The dynamic racial composition of the United States. (1995) (33)
The Demography of South Africa (2005) (32)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century. (1995) (30)
Contemporary fertility levels and trends in South Africa: evidence from reconstructed census birth histories. (1999) (28)
Demographic Projections, the Environment and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa (2012) (26)
Population and African Society (2003) (26)
Did Africans Live Longer in the Antebellum United States?: The Sensitivity of Mortality Estimates of Enslaved Africans (1995) (25)
THE POWER OF CULTURE: A Review of the Idea of Africa's Influence on Family Structure in Antebellum America (1990) (25)
Race, Methodology, and Social Construction in the Genomic Era (2015) (22)
Segregated Diversity (2015) (20)
The demography of difference: shifting trends of racial diversity and interracial marriage 1960–1990 (2001) (19)
Fertility and racial stratification. (1996) (18)
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Sociology: The Philadelphia Negro and Social Science (2004) (17)
An examination of recent census and survey data on mortality within the context of HIV/AIDS. (2005) (17)
Socio-Economic Status and Child Mortality: An Illustration Using Housing and Household Characteristics From African Census Data (2004) (14)
New model life tables for high-mortality populations. (1993) (12)
Migration and Employment (2016) (9)
Patterns of mortality by age and cause of death among nineteenth-century immigrants to Liberia. (1994) (9)
Demographic Change, the IMPACT Model, and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa (2012) (9)
Racial Differences in Mother-Child Coresidence in the Past (1996) (9)
Recent age patterns of mortality in Tanzania: an examination of the impact of HIV / AIDS on mortality. (2006) (8)
Fertility Differentials in sub-Saharan Africa: Applying Own-Children Methods to African Censuses (1999) (8)
Extreme mortality in nineteenth-century Africa: the case of Liberian immigrants. (1992) (8)
One step back in understanding racial differences in birth weight (2001) (6)
Demography of Race and Ethnicity in South Africa (2015) (6)
Age at first birth. (2005) (6)
Migration, Gender and Employment (2005) (5)
Racial Differences in Household Structure (2016) (5)
Racial classification and the census in South Africa (1999) (5)
Introduction to “Transcending Traditions” Special Issue of The Black Scholar (2000) (5)
Swing low, sweet chariot (1995) (4)
Estimating Childhood Mortality from Census Data in Africa : The case of Zambia (2002) (4)
Racial Residential Segregation in South Africa and the United States (2006) (4)
HIV/AIDS in light of death registration data. (2005) (4)
African American Men, Inequality and Family Structure: A Research Note. (1998) (3)
Introduction: The Study of African American Problems (2000) (3)
Multivariate Analysis Using Grouped Census Data : An Illustration on Estimating the Covariates of Childhood Mortality (2002) (3)
The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach About Human Difference (2014) (3)
Orphans in Three Sahelian Countries: Exploratory Analyses from Census Data. (2010) (3)
Thicker Than Blood (2001) (3)
Critical Race Theory: A Commemoration (2011) (2)
Population dynamics in Africa: some historical notes. (1999) (2)
Race and Gender Gaps in Education (2005) (2)
African Independence: How Africa Shapes the World (2015) (2)
Race Versus Racism As Cause (2011) (1)
A Perspective on Africa and the World (2010) (1)
The Power of Culture (1990) (1)
The social context of rural to urban labor migration decisions in developing countries: the case of Malaysian women. (1990) (1)
Against Epistemic Apartheid: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology.By Reiland Rabaka. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010. Pp. 440. $90.00 (cloth); $39.95 (paper). (2011) (1)
HIV mortality and the African American population. (1995) (1)
Fertility Decline in Zimbabwe: A Parity Progression Ratio and Birth Probability Analysis (1996) (1)
Technical Appraisal of Official South African Life Tables (2016) (1)
Sociology and the African Diaspora Experience (2007) (1)
Book Review: African Emigres in the United States: A Missing Link in Africa's Social and Economic Development (1993) (0)
Linear regression and back-calculation analyses with applications to AIDS cases in Alabama (1997) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1998) (0)
The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
Household and Living Arrangements in Kumasi, Ghana: Differences By Sex of Household Head (1995) (0)
The Logic Of Faith (2011) (0)
Fertility and Racial Stratification (1996) (0)
Book Review:The Decline of Fertility in Europe. Ansley J. Coale, Susan Cotts Watkins (1988) (0)
on Africa and the World (2010) (0)
Special editor’s introduction: racial statistics and public policy (2001) (0)
Book Review:Women, Sexuality and the Changing Social Order: The Impact of Government Policies on Reproductive Behavior in Kenya. Beth Maina Ahlberg (1992) (0)

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