Examples of essentialism in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web According to Walker, racial essentialism is built into D&D’s DNA, and its recent push for a racial reckoning is a long time coming. — Matthew Gault, Wired, "Dungeons, Dragons, and Diversity," 31 Dec. 2020 In the writing process, Docter delved into research on essentialism, nihilism and existentialism to better articulate the plight of his characters. — Los Angeles Times, "How the makers of Pixar’s ‘Soul’ envisioned a before-life place that kids can grasp," 24 Dec. 2020 In January, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of British Columbia published a study showing how taking a DNA test could influence a person’s belief in race essentialism, or the idea that racial differences are innate. — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, "Your ‘Ethnicity Estimate’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does," 2 Oct. 2020 Except that among testers who claimed no knowledge of genetics, race essentialism increased nearly 12 percent. — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, "Your ‘Ethnicity Estimate’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does," 2 Oct. 2020 Psychological essentialism is the notion that particular groups of people are different because of some real, meaningful underlying essence that is present deep in their nature, and often biological in origin. — Katherine D. Kinzler, Scientific American, "Were French People Born to Speak French?," 6 Aug. 2020 Relaying tales of natural women through a supernatural grammar flips essentialism on its head; these accounts offer up feminine bodies and performance at once. — Amanda Hess, New York Times, "The Wild Woman Awakens," 17 Dec. 2019 The Gene as a Cultural Icon, published in 1995, scholars Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan Lindee warned of the rise of genetic essentialism. — Libby Copeland, Time, "You Can Learn a Lot About Yourself From a DNA Test. Here's What Your Genes Cannot Tell You," 2 Mar. 2020 What drives Trump is racial essentialism, a rage at the post-racial, integrative center that the mixed-race Obama represented. — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, "Obama’s Legacy Has Already Been Destroyed," 18 May 2018

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