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单词 dead white european male
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dead 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.
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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.
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