abbreviation for Dead White European Male: a male writer or other famous person who may be highly respected because he was a white man who is no longer alive, rather than because his work deserves more respect than that of others

The books high school students in the city were required to read were all written by DWEMs. 全市中学生必须阅读的书籍都是已过世的欧洲白人男性的作品。