Robert Lee Allen (born May 29, 1942) is 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.
Allen married Pam Allen in 1965.[3]
In the 1980s he co-founded with Alice Walker the publishing company called Wild Trees Press,[4] publishing the work of Third World writers.[5]
- ^ Robert Allen
- ^ The Black Scholar
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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