Robert L. Allen
American activist, writer, and academic (born 1942) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]