Robert J Chrisman

Reparations for Slavery: A Reader

Reparations for Slavery: A Reader is a collection of essays on the topic of reparations for slavery in the United States. Unlike many other readers on such topics, this book includes a substantial number of essays designed to provide the entire discussion with an historical context by giving the rea...

The Obama Phenomenon: Toward a Multiracial Democracy

Barack Obama's campaign and electoral victory demonstrated the dynamic nature of American democracy. Beginning as a special issue of The Black Scholar, this probing collection illustrates the impact of "the Obama phenomenon" on the future of race relations within the United States through readings o...

Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry (Under Discussion)

This collection of essays by leading critics and poets charts Robert Hayden’s growing reputation as a major writer of some of the twentieth century’s most important poems on African-American themes, including the famed “Middle Passage” and “Frederick Douglass.” The essays illuminate the themes and t...

The Dirty Wars (New Poems by Robert Chrisman)

Chrisman's poetry has been praised by Alice Walker, Andrew Salkey, and the Los Angele Times.

Pan-Africanism

Book by Chrisman, Robert

Voices of a Black Nation: Political Journalism in the Harlem Renaissance

Court of Appeal: The Black Community Speaks Out on the Racial and

Straight Ahead:Essays on the Struggle of Blacks in America,1934-1994

The Black Scholar

Robert Chrisman (19372013), Nathan Hare (b. 1933) were active in the 1968 black and ethnic studies battles at San Francisco State. Hare, among others, had ...

Robert Chrisman

Robert Chrisman (May 28, 1937 March 10, 2013) was a poet, scholar, and founding editor and publisher of The Black Scholar (TBS). Chrisman and the...