Jeffrey B. Perry
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Jeffrey B. Perry | |
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| Born | Jeffrey Babcock Perry Bronx, New York, United States |
| Died | 2022 |
| Occupation | Writer, Author, Scholar, Archivist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Subjects | Class struggle, postcolonial studies, Hubert Harrison, Labor History, African American History |
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Jeffrey B. Perry (1946–2022) was an anti-white supremacist working-class author, editor, activist, and archivist. His work focused on Hubert Harrison, Theodore W. Allen, labor, and the centrality of the struggle against white supremacy to progressive social change.[1]
Life[edit]
Early life[edit]
Perry was born in The Bronx, New York on October 10th, 1946.[2] In January 1955, at the age of eight, Perry and his family moved to Paramus, N.J.[3]
At Paramus H.S, he did well as a student and received county-wide honors in basketball, baseball, and soccer. His 1964 baseball team won the County and State Championships. His 1963 basketball team won a County Championship.[4]
Work on Hubert Harrison[edit]
Perry authored a two-volume biography of Harrison for Columbia University Press Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (2009) [5] and Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (2021). He also edited and introduced: A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan University Press, 2001); [6] and Harrison’s When Africa Awakes: The ‘Inside Story’ of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World (Diasporic Africa Press, 2015).[1]
Perry’s rediscovery of Harrison has been praised by many notable scholars, including Cornel West[7] and David Roediger [8]. His writings on Harrison have been peer-reviewed[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] and are included in graduate-level African-American studies programs.[18]
Work with Theodore W. Allen[edit]
Perry began working with Theodore W. Allen in the early 1970s when he assisted Allen with the printing and distribution of early pamphlets which later formed the backbone of his two-volume work Class Struggle and the Origin of racial slavery: The Invention of the White Race.[1] Allen then named Perry as his literary executor describing him as, “the individual most intimately acquainted with the development of the book's arguments.”[19]
Perry then edited and wrote introductions along with new notes for the 2012 edition of Allen’s The Invention of the White Race Vol. 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control and Vol. 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (Verso Books, 2012) and the 2021 Composite Edition of The Invention of the White Race (Verso Books, November 2021). Perry also placed the Theodore W. Allen Papers and parts of his own Papers at the Archives of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.[1]
Personal[edit]
In 1988 Perry married Becky Hom, who had been active in the Asian American Movement and they have one child, a daughter, Perri Hom.[20]
Works[edit]
Selected writings[edit]
Jeffrey B. Perry, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Columbia University Press, 2008), 624 pp., Nominated for the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.
Jeffrey B. Perry, Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Columbia University Press, December 2021), 1000 pp., Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Jeffrey B. Perry, The Developing Conjuncture and Some Insights From Hubert Harrison and Theodore W. Allen on the Centrality of the Fight Against White Supremacy Cultural Logic (2010). (PDF Format) The "Addendum" discusses "Daedalus".
Jeffrey B. Perry, "On the Centrality of the Struggle Against White Supremacy" DSAUSA, September 20, 2017.
Jeffrey B. Perry and Charles Richardson, "The Radicalization of Ray Richardson: Suspicion Still Surrounds Death of Black Activist TV Producer" Black Agenda Report, October 8, 2013
Jeffrey B. Perry, "Two-Tier U.S. Immigration: The Lautenberg Amendment" Black Agenda Report, June 11, 2013,
Jeffrey B. Perry, “On the Loss of LMRDA Rights in the National Writers Union” Your Union News, November 15, 2003
Jeffrey B. Perry, "No Basis for Claims John Punch Was 'Indentured' and Two Servants Were 'White'” History News Network, August 6, 2012
Jeffrey B. Perry, “Hubert Harrison (1883-1927)" Socialism and Democracy Volume 17, 2003
Jeffrey B. Perry, “In Memoriam: Theodore W. Allen" ZNET, February 2, 2005
Jeffrey B. Perry, “Theodore W. Allen on the Invention of the White Race, White Privilege and the Working Class” Facts for Working People, April 19, 2015
Jeffrey B. Perry, “Theodore Allen on Race and Privilege” Socialist Worker.Org, April 28, 2015
Jeffrey B. Perry, “40th Anniversary of the Postal Wildcat Strike of 1978. Let Us Not Forget!”
Jeffrey B. Perry, “Race Consciousness and the Struggle for Socialism,” Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 17, No. 2 (June 2003)
Jeffrey B. Perry, "Hubert Henry Harrison: The Father of Harlem Radicalism: The Early Years—1883--Through the Founding of The Liberty League and 'The Voice" in 1917" Columbia University Ph. D Dissertation (1986), 834 pp., reprinted by UPI Dissertation Services 1999.
Selected editorial work[edit]
A Hubert Harrison Reader Wesleyan University Press, 2001
Hubert H. Harrison, When Africa Awakes: The "Inside Story" of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World Diasporic Africa Press, 2015 (Complete edition of Harrison's original 1920 volume)
Theodore W. Allen, Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race Center for the Study of Working Class Life, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1975, 2006
Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race, Vol. 1 "Racial Oppression and Social Control" Verso, 2012
Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race, Vol. 2 "The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America," Verso, 2012
Selected archival work[edit]
Hubert H. Harrison Papers at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
Theodore William Allen Papers at the Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Selected writings about Jeffrey B. Perry[edit]
Merrell Noden “Do It Yourself Scholars, No Backing from the Ivory Tower. Plenty of Grit.” Princeton Alumni Weekly, April 22, 2009
Ed Mills "Perry Starred on, off Athletic Field: Paramus Standout Now a Historian" The Record, May 26, 2015
Scott McLemee "Rediscovering Hubert Harrison" Inside Higher Ed, December 10. 2008
Carlett Spike "Jeff Perry ’68’s Scholarship Is Elevating ‘the Father of Harlem Radicalism’" Princeton Alumni Weekly, April 27, 2022
Robert Greene II [https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hubert-harrison-jeffrey-perry/ The Stalwart Hubert Harrison’s radical life and times] The Nation, June 1, 2022
"Jeffrey B. Perry, A Spartan Who Took a Different Path" The Paramus Post, February 13, 2022
Sean Ahern Review of The “Invention of the White Race" Substance News August 28, 2013
Sean Ahern "Hubert Harrison, Tribune of the People: Part Three, The Struggle for Equality" Black Agenda Report, June 22, 2022
Video presentations[edit]
Jeffrey B. Perry on Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918
Jeffrey B. Perry, on Theodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ahern, Sean. "Jeffrey B. Perry (1946-2022)". Verso. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ↑ "Jeffrey B. Perry Obituary". NorthJersey.com. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ↑ Mills, Ed (May 26, 2015). "Perry starred on, off athletic fields". The Record.
- ↑ Mills, Ed (May 26, 2015). "Perry starred on, off athletic fields". The Record.
- ↑ Noden, Merrell (21 January 2016). "Do-it-yourself scholars". Princeton. Princeton Alumni Weekly. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
- ↑ Spike, Carlett (27 April 2022). "Jeff Perry '68's Scholarship Is Elevating 'the Father of Harlem Radicalism'". paw.princeton.edu. Princeton. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
- ↑ Cornel, West. "Cornel West on Hubert Harrison, Thomas Paine, and Jeffrey B. Perry". Youtube. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
- ↑ Roediger, David (2017). Class, Race, And Marxism. London: Verso. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-78663-123-7. Search this book on
- ↑ Lee, Lester (2003). "A Hubert Harrison Reader [Review of A Hubert Harrison Reader]". Research in African Literatures - Indiana University Press. 34 (2): 230–231.
- ↑ Arnesen, Eric (2003). "Reviews: 'A Hubert Harrison Reader,' Edited by Jeffrey B. Perry". African American Review. 37 (1): 160–161. doi:10.2307/1512374. JSTOR 1512374.
- ↑ Phelps, Christopher (2004). "The Rediscovered Brilliance of Hubert Harrison". Science & Society. 68 (2): 223–230.
- ↑ Sterling, Johnson (2011). "Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918". Journal of American Ethnic History. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
- ↑ Moses, Wilson (2009). "Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918". American Historical Review. Oxford: The University of Chicago Press.
- ↑ Harris, LaShawn (2010). "A More Complete Portrait: Revisiting African American Progressive Era Leadership". The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 9 (4): 535–539. doi:10.1017/S1537781400004254. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Heideman, Paul (2013). "Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918". Historical Materialism : Research in Critical Marxist Theory. 21 (3): 165–177. doi:10.1163/1569206X-12341315.
- ↑ Stevens, Margaret (2011). "Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918". Science & Society.
- ↑ Hansen, Jonathan (2009). ""Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918". Journal of American History. Oxford: Organization of American Historians.
- ↑ Dept. Of History, Rutgers University. "Graduate African American History Reading List". Rutgers.edu. Rutgers. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
- ↑ Allen, Theodore (November 2012). The Invention of the White Race Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control. New York: Verso. p. vii. ISBN 9781844677696. Search this book on
- ↑ Alumni Weekly, Princeton (26 January 2023). "Memorial: Jeffrey B. Perry '68". Princeton. Princeton Alumni Weekly. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
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