<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_98_134789371822254"><span id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_98_1347893718222118"><div id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_70_1347893719351557" style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69);text-align:center;"><span id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_70_1347893719351556"><span id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_70_1347893719351555" style="font-weight:bold;">The Black Cultural Front: <span class="yiv1775165658yshortcuts yiv1775165658cs4-visible" id="yiv1775165658lw_1348002377_0">Black Writers</span> and Artists of the Depression Generation</span></span></div><div id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_70_1347893719351564" style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69);background-color:transparent;text-align:center;"><span id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_70_1347893719351563"><span id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_70_1347893719351562" style="font-weight:bold;"><span class="yiv1775165658"
id="yiv1775165658lw_1347897687_2"><span class="yiv1775165658" id="yiv1775165658lw_1348002377_1">Saturday, September 22 at 2pm</span></span> at The Urbana Free Library</span></span></div><div id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_70_1347893719351565" style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69);background-color:transparent;text-align:center;"><br></div><div id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_70_1347893719351569" style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69);background-color:transparent;"><span id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_70_1347893719351568">Author Brian Dolinar will read from his recently released new
book <span id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_70_1347893719351567" style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">The Black Cultural Front</span>.
The book describes how the social and political movements that grew out
of the Depression led several African American artists and writers to
turn to leftist politics. Dolinar examines the works of poet Langston
Hughes, novelist Chester Himes, and cartoonist Ollie Harrington.
Collectively, the
experience of these three figures contributes to the story of a "long"
movement for African American freedom that flourished during the 1930s,
1940s, and 1950s. </span></div></span></div><div><br id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_98_134789371822257"></div> <div dir="ltr" id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_98_1347893718222135"><span style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-size:12pt;" id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_98_1347893718222140">Brian
Dolinar is a scholar of African American literature and culture
from the Depression era. He is a originally a Midwesterner, hailing from
Wichita, Kansas. He moved to Urbana-Champaign in 2004. In 2005, he
received a Ph.D. in Cultural
Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of </span><i style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;" id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_98_1347893718222158">The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation </i><span style="font-size:12pt;" id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_98_1347893718222163">(2012), published by the University Press of Mississippi, and editor of forthcoming book </span><i style="font-size:12pt;" id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_98_1347893718222168"><span style="font-weight:bold;" id="yiv1775165658yui_3_2_0_98_1347893718222173">The Negro in Illinois</span> </i><span style="font-size:12pt;">(2013), published by the University of Illinois Press.
He has taught in
the English Department and Department of African American Studies at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as in the
California State system. </span><br></span></div></div></body></html>