"The book is powerful and moving; the stories of his childhood in Wilkinsburg, PA, and the medical struggles he and his wife faced are both searing and illuminating. But Perry also delivers the kinds of facts, figures and charts that one would expect from a Brookings Institution fellow."--Peter Greene, Forbes

"The book is an obvious choice for courses in urban studies and racial inequality, but also (e)valuation and economics. Perry effectively highlights the value of Black communities while acknowledging the systematic disinvestment and structural racism that have devalued them."--Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana, Social Force

"A bracing look at the systemic devaluation of black property and a rousing call to empower majority-black communities to build wealth through asset-based development."--Anthony M. Barr, The American Conservative

"Know Your Price: Valuing Black Live and Property in America's Black Cities is an important contribution that clearly makes the case for how any path forward to ensure Black futures will require the dismantling of structural racism, centering Black communities and Black people as assets, and distributing resources accordingly."--Monica McLemore, BLAVITY

"In Know Your Price Dr. Perry lays bare the wretched tradition that devalues black bodies and black property. By writing from the inside out, he gives the facts and figures of redlining and subsequent gentrification, names and faces--their joys, desires, hopes, pain, agony, and despair. The writing itself is deft and heartfelt. It reads as if James Baldwin was a social scientist. Indeed, Dr. Perry has a word for our beleaguered democracy."--Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, associate fellow, Institute for Policy Studies

"Birmingham understands that developing trust in communities that have been historically discriminated against requires time, energy and partnership. As mayor, I work in the building where the city's red-lining maps were once drawn. This book calls on city leaders to think and act systematically to begin dismantling systemic racism. In Birmingham, we are working for economic justice and racial inclusion because of our history, not in spite of it."--Randall L. Woodfin, mayor, Birmingham, Alabama

"In this groundbreaking and important volume, Andre Perry brilliantly addresses the importance of fixing the racist governmental policies that have 'created housing, education, and wealth disparities, ' especially in Black communities. Not only a rigorous analysis of the dynamics of devaluation, Perry has written a powerful personal narrative that will captivate his readers."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

"Know Your Price is a purposeful, in-depth, and critical examination of the pathology of racism, classism, and the self-destructive impact of American indifference. But what Dr. Perry so skillfully illuminates is the culture of exercising our right of self-determination that has served generations of African Americans as a means of survival in the face of the most virulent, violent, and discriminatory social order. Know Your Price brings solutions to the table, not merely voicing dissent to the status quo. It's a gift of understanding that the one variable a person controls in a dysfunctional paradigm is their contribution to it, without absolving those who are the source of that dysfunction. Personal, powerful, and profound, Know Your Price is a display of Dr. Perry's brilliant analytical mind as a researcher, and the heart of a man who speaks with the passion and intimate knowledge of the world he creates in this book."--Wendell Pierce, actor, producer, activist

"In a book grounded in both personal testimony and rigorous empirical research, Perry writes compellingly about how Black folks have managed to navigate the systemic and structural impediments history has placed before us. Perry outlines in extraordinary detail what Black folks have been up against over the course of generations to help the reader understand that the contemporary landscape of inequality is no accident, but exist by design. Know Your Price is an important addition to any conversation about racial inequality in this country. This book is an essential tool to help refute the lies we have been told for so long."--Clint Smith, author of Counting Descent

"A powerful indictment of a white culture that persistently blames the victims of racism for the consequences of oppression, Know Your Price is also a hopeful and moving celebration of Black resilience. Its meticulously researched case for better scholarship and an end to racist policy should be must-reading for American policymakers and the people who put them in office."--Grant Oliphant, president, The Heinz Endowments

"Black women have long known how to build and grow community despite others' negative perceptions of value. This book illustrates beautifully for the rest of the world how perceived value and gendered racism in policies is killing us."--Alexis McGill Johnson, co-founder, Perception Institute; acting CEO, Planned Parenthood

"This memoir is not another self-aggrandizing voyeuristic presentation of hood triumph. Rather it is a brave, honest, and analytically insightful understanding of dignity and worth and challenge to society's myopic devaluation of black people and communities. This book is one of a kind and Andre Perry is a national treasure. In both persona and scholarship, he exemplifies the clear and convincing case of why diversity and inclusion matter."--Darrick Hamilton, executive director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity; professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University

"At its core, Perry's work and research is very personal, intimate and familial, because it's for and about Black people, and his life experience has made him exceptionally sensitive and conversant in the patterns of socioeconomic disparity--but what he's doing is also a public service for the common good."--Carla Bell, Essence

"VERDICT Especially for students of urban planning and public policy but also for those seriously interested in equity and social change in America, this work combines extraordinarily readable, well-documented data analysis with a people-oriented call for activism."--Library Journal

"Perry reflects on the good, the bad and the ugly, and even apologizes along the way for falling short of what he's now challenging others to do--to see and understand black lives and black places as inherently worthy of investment."--Oscar Perry Abello, NextCity