DWEM

English Pronunciation en Noun en derogatory en dead white European male. en-US Mervyn Rothstein At Columbia, the Classics' Olympian Reign Is Challenged w:The New York Times 1992-10-10 https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/10/nyregion/at-columbia-the-classics-olympian-reign-is-challenged.html 0362-4331 Female authors, added in recent years, include Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf. Many instructors, who may add works to the required list, also include Sappho. Even so, the emphasis on DWEM's does not please many women and minorities. It was in Professor Smit's classroom that Plato was the DWEM of the day. https://web.archive.org/web/20180115152607/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/10/nyregion/at-columbia-the-classics-olympian-reign-is-challenged.html en 1993 Howard Dickman The Imperiled Academy Few physicists are deploring the dead-white-European-male (DWEM) origins of their discipline. en 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 en 2002 Sallie Westwood Power and the Social Foucault has met a similar fate — derided as another DWEM Anagrams en demw mew'd en People