DWEM

Also found in: Acronyms, Wikipedia.

Related to DWEM: Dead white males

Dwem

(dwɛm)

n acronym for

(Sociology) Dead White European Male

DWEM

Slang. dead white European male.

References in periodicals archive ?

which mostly consists of Dead White European Males (DWEM) (Chalmers,

Biculturalism and multiculturalism: competing tensions in visual arts education in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Political correctness has brought about a new vocabulary of words into our culture with terms like homophobic, multicultural, Eurocentric, disadvantaged, physically challenged, carbon footprint, sex worker, lookism, fattist, phallocentric, waitron, wimmin, differently abled, and DWEM (dead white European males).

Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture

The goal: to "include" in the classroom and in published research an array of "marginalized" authors who allegedly had been pushed out of the "canon" by certain diffuse malevolent influences, many of them members of the "DWEM" ("dead white European male") tribe.