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Dead White European Male

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Dead White European Male, Dead White Male
n
(Sociology) a man whose importance and talents may have been exaggerated because he belonged to a historically dominant gender and ethnic group


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Cart describes the academic revolt against reverence for classics by dead white European male authors, and poses the insiderversus-outsider controversy in the unanswerable question, "Can a writer's imagination be powerful enough to create a viable work of fiction about a culture the writer has observed only from the outside?
It should give pause to those who natter on about the church as the realm of Dead White European Males.
 
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