WEEK SEVEN

WEEK SEVEN

African American Heritage House (AAHH) Lecture Series: Andre Perry 

Please join us online at CHQ Assembly on Friday, August 13 at 1:00 pm EDT for our eighth program of the 2021 Summer Assembly Season. We are pleased to present Andre Perry, Senior Fellow with the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, scholar-in-residence at American University, and columnist for the Hechinger Report, as he delivers a talk in line with the weekly theme of The State of the Economy: Where Do We Go From Here? 

Perry is the author of the book “Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities.” Perry’s research focuses on race and structural inequality, education, and economic inclusion. Perry’s scholarship at Brookings has analyzed Black-majority cities and institutions in America, focusing on valuable assets worthy of increased investment.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Perry has documented the underlying causes for the outsized number of coronavirus-related deaths in Black communities. Perry’s Brookings research has illuminated how certain forms of social distancing historically accelerated economic and social disparities between Black people and the rest of the country. Perry also mapped racial inequities in housing, income, and health to underscore how policy discrimination makes Black Americans more vulnerable to COVID-19.

Perry’s academic writings have also concentrated on race, structural inequality, and urban schools. Perry co-authored the Brookings Institution report “The Devaluation of Assets in Black Neighborhoods” and has presented its findings across the country, including to the U.S. House Financial Services Committee. 

AAHH lectures will remain available on the CHQ Assembly Platform assembly.chq.org and will also be archived on the AAHH website AAHeritageHouse.org a few days after the presentation. 

Note: the speaker will not be on the grounds of Chautauqua Institution.