Foucault has met a similar fate — derided as another DWEM […] 2002, Sallie Westwood, Power and the Social:
Few physicists are deploring the dead-white-European-male (DWEM) origins of their discipline. 1993, Howard Dickman, The Imperiled Academy:
Female authors, added in recent years, include Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf. Many instructors, who may add works to the required list, also include Sappho. Even so, the emphasis on DWEM's does not please many women and minorities. […] It was in Professor Smit's classroom that Plato was the DWEM of the day. 1992 October 10, Mervyn Rothstein, “At Columbia, the Classics' Olympian Reign Is Challenged”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2018:
The DWEM represents the canon works so long prized by academic traditionalists — works created largely by Western, Eurocentric men, mostly now dead […] 1997, Philip Herbst, The Color of Words: