Jeffrey Perry

Jeffrey B. Perry is an independent, working-class scholar formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, and Columbia. Dr. Perry was influenced toward serious study of matters of race and class in America through personal experiences and readings and through the work of an independent scholar and close personal friend, the late Theodore William Allen (1919-2005). He is the editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan University Press, 2001) and the forthcoming “Writings of Hubert Harrison.” He is also the author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Columbia University Press, 2008). He is currently working on Vol. 2 of the Hubert Harrison biography.