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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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In it Busch decries the use of current trendy jargon and complains that if Chaucer were to apply for a university job today he would not get it "because he is a dead white European male and because his degree isn't good enough, and because he doesn't do theory.
One still can say, even in these days of multicultural attacks on dead white European male authors, that William Shakespeare was the greatest writer who ever lived.
 
 
 
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