Brian Dolinar is the author of The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation (University Press of Mississippi, 2012) and editor of The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers (University of Illinois Press, 2013). He has taught history and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His writings have appeared in African American Review, Langston Hughes Review and Southern Quarterly.
Animating the Great Migration and After
Against the Current, No. 194, May/June 2018
Mass Incarceration for Profit
Against the Current, No. 177, July/August 2015
A Folklorist of Black America
Against the Current, No. 174, January/February 2015
Margaret Burroughs
Against the Current, No. 152, May/June 2011
Long Before "Boondocks"
Against the Current, No. 138, January/February 2009