DWEM

English

Noun

DWEM (plural DWEMs)

1. Initialism of dead white European male.
   • 1993, Howard Dickman, The Imperiled Academy:

     Few physicists are deploring the dead-white-European-male (DWEM) origins of their discipline.

   • 1997, Philip Herbst, The Color of Words:

     The DWEM represents the canon works so long prized by academic traditionalists — works created largely by Western, Eurocentric men, mostly now dead […]

   • 2002, Sallie Westwood, Power and the Social:

     Foucault has met a similar fate — derided as another DWEM […]

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