The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research

Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by Leshell Hatley in Places of Scholarly Work, Research, Scholarly Celebrations

THE BLACK SCHOLAR: The Journal of Black Studies and Research was founded in 1969 and hailed by The New York Times as “a journal in which the writings of many of today’s finest black thinkers may be viewed.” It has firmly established itself as the leading journal of black cultural and political thought in the United States.

Happy 40th Annivesary!

African American studies intellectuals, community activists, and national and international political leaders are among its contributors. Some have been Amiri Baraka, Angela Davis, Julian Bond, Shirley Chisholm, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Audre Lorde, Nelson Mandela,, Barbara Smith, Sekou Toure, Johnnetta B. Cole, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Henry Louis Gates and many, many more.

Each issue focuses on a subject of major concern in the African American community. Education, black political empowerment, social movements, the multicultural debate, black women’s activism, the crisis of the black male, the Ebonics debate, the Million Man March, the New South Africa and many other fundamental subjects have all been probed in the pages of The Black Scholar. In addition, each issue also features book reviews, current books received, announcements, and classified employment listings by colleges and universities.

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Robert Chrisman – Founding Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Robert Chrisman is a poet and essayist who’s been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Chair of the Black Studies Department of the University of Nebraska at Omaha until mid-2005 and the principal organizer of that department’s Malcolm X Festival for three years. Dr. Chrisman’s current research interests include: the impact of modernism on Afro-American authors of the twentieth century; and works of the Afro-Cuban poets, Nicholas Guillen and Nancy Morejon. He published Pan-Africanism (1974), as co-compiler with Nathan Hare, Court of Appeal: The Black Community Speaks Out on the Racial and Sexual Politics of Thomas vs. Hill (1992), and Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry, as co-editor with Laurence Goldstein (2001). Dr. Chrisman also was co-compiler (with Dr. Hare) of Contemporary Black Thought: The Best from The Black Scholar (1974), which is out of print.

Dr. Chrisman has an MA in Language Arts from San Francisco State College (where he studied with Herb Blau), and a doctorate in English from the University of Michigan. He retired from a Professorship and Chair of Black Studies at University of Nebraska, Omaha, in 2005. His previous teaching includes University of Michigan, Williams College, UC Berkeley, University of Vermont, and Wayne State University.

Robert L. Allen – Senior Editor
Dr, Robert L. Allen is Professor of African American Studies & Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Allen is the author of Black Awakening in Capitalist America (1990); Reluctant Reformers: The Impact of Racism on Social Movement in the U.S. (1983); The Port Chicago Mutiny (1989, repuplished 2006); Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (with Herb Boyd, reprinted 1996); Strong in the Struggle: My Life as a Black Labor Activist (the life of labor leader Lee Brown), Honoring Sergeant Carter: A Family’s Journey to Uncover the Truth About an American Hero (2004); and A Guide to Black Power in America: An Historical Analysis (1970).

Robert Allen received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco. He has been the recipient of many honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an American Book Award (shared with co-editor Herb Boyd for Brotherman).

For recent issues, subscriptions and more information, visit http://www.theblackscholar.org

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