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Tukufu Zuberi spoke with Penn News about W.E.B DuBois' significance at Penn, in urban ethnography, and the long-lasting advances he made in mordern sociology. DuBois' research focused on race and class, equal rights, and beyond. While at Penn he wrote his landmark study The Philadelphia Negro.