单词 | dead white european male |
释义 | > as lemmasdead white European male dead white male n. usu. depreciative (originally and chiefly U.S.) (also more fully dead white European male) a dead Caucasian male writer, philosopher, etc., whose pre-eminence, esp. in academic study, is challenged as disproportionate to his cultural significance, and attributed to a historical bias towards his gender and ethnic group; = DWEM n. ΚΠ 1985 Winchester (Va.) Star 14 May 14/5 Davies said curriculum reform is being used in..dangerous ways... It is being used ‘to assert the primacy of a set of values which are essentially those of dead, white males.’ 1995 D. Marc Bonfire of Humanities 32 Moby Dick, a big fat book by a dead white male about a big fat white sea mammal. 2003 Bk. Hist. 6 259 The ‘dead white European males’ who had traditionally made up the Western literary canon. 2012 D. V. Goska Save send Delete 46 Nothing could be more subversive than a white woman playing a black woman playing a dead white male. < as lemmas |
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