Theodore W. Allen (19192005) was an antiwhite supremacist, working-class intellectual and activist who began his pioneering work on "white skin privilege" and "white race" privilege in 1965. He co-authored the influential White Blindspot, authored Can White Workers Radicals Be Radicalized? , and wrote the ground-breaking Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slaver before publication of his seminal two-volume classic The Invention of the White Race.