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Tukufu Zuberi (born April 26, 1959) 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'' (2002), and ''500 Years Later'' (2005). He is one of the hosts of the long-running PBS program ''History Detectives''. As founder of his own production company,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Producer )〕〔(Tukufu Zuberi CV (PDF) )〕 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. ==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, which is Swahili for "beyond praise" and "strength". Zuberi says that he "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."〔Barb Karg ''The History Detectives: Explore Lincoln's Letter, Parker's Sax and Mark Twain's Watch''. John Wiley, 2008, p. xv.〕 Zuberi received a bachelor's degree from San Jose State in 1981, a master's degree from Sacramento State in 1985, and a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1989. In 1988, 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, and the Director of the Center for Africana Studies.〔Greg Benson, "New Home, Name, and Faculty for Afro-American Studies" ''The Pennsylvania Gazette'', November/December 2002, p. 21.〕 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 2013, Zuberi produced his first documentary, ''African Independence''. The film premiered at the San Diego Black Film Festival in January 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Premiere of My First Film on African Independence )〕 The film discusses the beginning of the independence movement and the problems faced by the movement to win independence in Africa.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Synopsis )〕〔Gang, Alison, "Celebration of Black Cinema" UT San Diego, January 31, 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tukufu Zuberi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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