American activist, writer, and academic (1942–2024)
Robert Lee Allen (May 29, 1942 – July 10, 2024) was an American activist, writer, and adjunct professor of African-American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley .[ 1] Allen received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco , and previously taught at San José State University and Mills College . He was Senior Editor (with Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Robert Chrisman ) of The Black Scholar : Journal of Black Studies and Research ,[ 2] published quarterly or more frequently in Oakland, California , by the Black World Foundation since 1969.
In the 1980s, he co-founded with Alice Walker the publishing company called Wild Trees Press,[ 3] publishing the work of Third World writers.[ 4]
Allen married Pam Allen in 1965.[ 5] He died on July 10, 2024, at the age of 82.[ 6]
Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History (1969)
A Guide to Black Power in America: An Historical Analysis (1970)
Reluctant Reformers: The Impact of Racism on Social Movement in the U.S. (1983)[ 7]
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (co-edited with Herb Boyd ,[ 8] reprinted 1996)
Strong in the Struggle: My Life as a Black Labor Activist (with ILWU militant Lee Brown, 2001)
Honoring Sergeant Carter: A Family's Journey to Uncover the Truth About an American Hero [ 9] (with Allene G. Carter, 2004)
The Port Chicago Mutiny : The Story of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial in U.S. Naval History [ 10] [ 11] (Heyday Books , 1989, republished 2006).
^ Robert Allen
^ The Black Scholar
^ Maya Jaggi , "Redemption songs" - Alice Walker profile , The Guardian , January 15, 2005.
^ Karla Simcikova, To Live Fully, Here and Now: The Healing Vision in the Works of Alice Walker , Lexington Books, 2007, p. 148.
^ Evans, Sara (1980). Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left (Unabridged. ed.). New York: Vintage Books. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-307-77360-9 .
^ RIP Robert L. Allen, a Black scholar in every sense of the words
^ CPUSA Online - The Nature of the "White-Black Relationship"
^ Claire E. White, "Interview with Herb Boyd", Writers Write - The Internet Writing Journal .
^ Honoring Sergeant Carter
^ a b :: Port Chicago Survivors - History & Concept ::
^ Heyday Books: The Port Chicago Mutiny
^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1977 Fellows Page Archived 2006-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
^ I've Known Rivers | Author Biography Index
^ ABA: Book Industry Awards Archived July 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ :: The Black Hollywood Education & Resource Center ::
^ PRX » Pieces » The Port Chicago 50: An Oral History
^ "The Job That Takes over Your Life" . 27 September 1996.
^ News Releases - Long Walk to Freedom - SFPL.org
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