Theodore William "Ted" Allen (August 23, 1919January 19, 2005) was an American intellectual, writer, and activist, best known for his pioneering writings since the 1960s on the "invention" of the "white race," particularly his seminal Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race, published as a pamphlet in 1975, and published the next year in expanded form. He stressed that the "white race" was invented as "a ruling class social control formation."