 Harris' great number of works on race relations such as "The Black Worker" served as a model for future African-American studies.His essays in "The Journal of Political Economy" have played a significant role for institutionalist economists and for economists studying the history of economic doctrines.He is still widely regarded as one of the first African Americans to achieve prominence in academia in the early 20th century, and an influential figure on a wide range of African-American topics of interest.