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Dr. Andre M. Perry is a prominent scholar and fellow at The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. He is also a scholar-in-residence at American University and a columnist for the Hechinger Report. His work tends to focus on race, structural inequality, and education, and his work has been featured in MSNBC The New York Times, The Nation, The Washington Post, CNN among others. He is also the author of the new book “Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities”. That book focuses on the devaluation of assets in black neighborhoods and highlights findings he produced in a Brookings study and presented before Congress.
The interview focuses on race inequality, the movement to defund the police, reconciling class-based movements with race-based movements, political strategies to enact progressive legislation, and whether or not change should come in or outside the system.
