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DOWM

Dead, old, white men (refers to literature)
If he or she looks in the anthology for the year and sees nothing but what we in young adult literature call DOWMs — dead, old, white men — and no Native authors, what do they think? I don’t count? I don’t exist? The only stories that matter are the stories of Northern Europeans?
by PrometheanLife April 9, 2018
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