| For better or worse, essentialism is the quintessential American approach to education. |
| It is a different phenomenon from philosophical or metaphysical essentialism. |
| For example, Pinker attributes opposition to genetically modified foods to innate and intuitive essentialism. |
| Such essentialism turns profane spaces into sites that are released from any constraint as to their exchangeability and exploitation. |
| Some readers have discerned a strain of racial essentialism in his putatively social constructionist stance. |
| Of course, Chesnutt exposes the fictiveness of a degraded black essentialism in Dr. Miller's upward mobility. |
