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White Invites Harper's Readers to Resist
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Dr. Curtis White
Professor of English Curtis White’s article “The Spirit of Disobedience: An Invitation to Resistance” was published in the April 2006 issue of Harper’s Magazine. White, who is internationally known as a postmodern fiction writer and a social critic, is the author of the provocative book The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves, which was named in the top ten books of nonfiction in 2003 and is an expansion of another article White published in Harper’s in March of 2002. The current article focuses on the cultural split between a Christian and an Enlightenment viewpoint in the United States and discusses capitalism, theology, and the importance to our current culture of Henry David Thoreau’s ideas on disobedience and imagination.

White’s most recent novel, entitled America’s Magic Mountain, was published in 2004 by Dalkey Archive Press, which is housed at Illinois State. White is the author of six other books of fiction such as Memories of My Father Watching TV and Requiem, two books of non-fiction, and over thirty essays. White was named College of Arts and Sciences Lecturer for the Fall of 2006. He received his B.A. in 1973 from the University of San Francisco, his M.A. in 1974 from The Johns Hopkins University, and his Ph.D. in 1979 from the University of Iowa. He has received two Illinois Arts Council Fellowships and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
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