10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEAD WHITE EUROPEAN MALE»
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The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Special section, ...
It was going to be up to me to release that race memory via the incomparable
verse of the Chief Dead White European Male: a nice paradox.9 Like
Shakespeare's play and the production itself these words not only essentialize
the 'African' in ...
Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Laurence Wright, 2009
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Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture
DWEM by contrast, does not have a literal or referential meaning, since “Dead
White European Male” is obviously too large and generalized a category to be
useful. (The term was discussed in chapter 2 concerning “the canon.”) The
attempt ...
3
Movers and Shakers: A Chronology of Words that Shaped Our Age
DWEM n (1990) an acronym formed from the initial letters of dead white
European male, a contemptuous term applied to famous male historical figures,
especially writers, artists, and thinkers, whose work has dominated the curricula
of ...
4
Our Brave New World: Essays on the Impact of September 11
Not only is he a dead white European male, but he is one who embodied in his
life and aspirations an ideal of humanity completely at odds with academic
multiculturalism. He was patriarchal, militarist, elitist, and Eurocentric, indeed, ...
5
Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Hamlet, Henry IV
It is, of course, absurd to stigmatize Shakespeare, an extraordinarily open-
minded writer but a man of his time, as a male chauvinist pig or to dismiss him as
a dead white European male, but it seems to me important to read and watch his
...
6
Teaching Hamlet and Henry IV, Part 1: Shakespeare Set Free
It is, of course, absurd to stigmatize Shakespeare, an extraordinarily open-
minded writer but a man of his time, as a male chauvinist pig or to dismiss him as
a dead white European male, but it seems to me important to read and watch his
...
William Shakespeare, Peggy O'Brien, Jeanne Addison Roberts, 2006
... talents are considered to have been exaggerated by virtue of his belonging to
a historically dominant gender and ethnic group: [as modifier] classical music
once was the exclusive realm of dead white European male composers. [30 Sept.
8
Future Tense: The Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval
Not only is he a dead white European male, but he is one who embodied in his
life and aspirations an ideal of humanity completely at odds with academic
multiculturalism. He was patriarchal, militarist, elitist, and Eurocentric. He
exhibited a ...
9
Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and ...
Is this another DWEM (dead white European male), or in this case another LWEM
(a live white European male), insisting that everyone else think the way he does?
Let me define briefly what I mean by truth. My How Do We Judge the Arts? 57.
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Oxford Dictionary of English
2[usu. as modifier] a debt not covered by assets. dead white 7noun [mass noun] a
flat, lustreless white. dead white European male (also dead white male) 7noun
informal a writer, philosopher, or other significant figure whose importance and ...
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEAD WHITE EUROPEAN MALE»
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Dead White European Male is used in the context of the following news items.
Students and faculty discuss diversity of Great Books courses
Debates on increasing the diversity of university's curricula grew in the early 1990s, when the term “dead white European male” was coined. «The Michigan Daily, May 15»
That Venezuelan Spiral Into The Socialist End State Continues
The point being not that it is politically correct, or according to the books of some long dead white European male, but that it actually works. «Forbes, Feb 15»
Ibadan School of Classics and the National Question in Nigeria
For years, Classics was seen as a “Dead White European Male” sort of subject that has far too often acted as a convenient alibi for a whole ... «Eagle Reporters, Jan 15»
Why The UK Should Not Reform Business Rates
... idea was promoted by a Dead White European Male doesn't make it necessarily wrong) and is thus a good tax: it's also the least distortionary ... «Forbes, Nov 14»
The Left and the Distortion of History
For Alfred, being a DWEM (Dead White European Male) means that his great achievements are to be ignored because they do not fit into the ... «American Thinker, Oct 14»
'I've Been a Pariah for So Long'
For nearly 30 years, he has been labeled a blue-blood elitist and arch-defender of the Dead White European Male. Now, the retired English professor is finding ... «POLITICO Magazine, Sep 14»
Classical music's cultural cringe
In Australia, taxpayer funds were subsidising "dead white European male music for the diverting entertainment of the well-heeled'', while little ... «The Australian, Oct 12»
An exchange: More on the contemporary assault on Shakespeare
Only the most thickheaded choose openly to dismiss Shakespeare as simply another “dead white European male,” but that urge, to one degree ... «World Socialist Web Site, Nov 11»
