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632 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 5 (2010)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0632 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION A Perspective on Africa and the World By TUKUFU ZUBERI A s a boy I knew little of Africa. I grew up in Oakland, California, in the 1960s and 1970s and spent my childhood in the projects just down the street from the headquarters of the Black Panthers. Not only did I see the Panthers march and clash with the police, but I also ate in the local breakfast programs that the Panthers sponsored and colored in coloring books that they produced. This experience gave me an interest in the social and political events of the world. The books that I read in high school had no information about Africa, and little attention was paid to world events in my classes. One of my English teachers had us read a book on Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. Du Bois. This book inspired me to think in a broader fashion than before. Then a series of events changed my life: I entered college and often heard Africa and the world mentioned; I learned about the antiapart- heid movement and the struggle in Zimbabwe (at the time Rhodesia) and became actively involved in the divestment movement; I began to visit Africa on a regular basis. It was at college that I picked up the book The Negro, the first serious effort by W. E. B. Du Bois, the great Pan- African scholar, to write a continental history. Tukufu Zuberi is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations and chair of the Departient < of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a prominent scholar of African and African-American studies and race relations. Prof fesor Zu beri joined the Penn ficulity in 1989; uring this tie he has been a visiting profes- sor at Makerre University in Uganda and at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. He holds a PhD from the University qf Chicago. His publications include Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century (University of Chicago Press 1995) and Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie (University of Minnesota Press 2001). He is also the coeditor of The Demography of South Africa (M. E. Sharpe 2005) and White Logic, White Methods (Rowman & Littlefield 2008). The latter was the winner of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award in 2009. DOI: 10.1177/0002716210378835 ANNALS, AAPSS, 632, November 2010 5

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