Sentences with phrase «often essentialist»

Thelma Golden, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs at the Studio Museum in Harlem, synopsizes the development of «black art» from «the vital political activism of the 1960s to the focused, often essentialist, Black Arts Movement of the 1970s to the theory — driven multiculturalism of the 1980s to the late globalist expansion of the late 1990s.»

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And McMillian's performance - based videos often recast significant events — from Nat Turner's slave rebellion to Ronald Reagan's Neshoba County Fair speech — as playful, disconcerting parodies that upend essentialist readings of history.

But these artists are often criticized for being essentialist and presuming that an inherent female identity exists based off biology.

Of course, the subtext of this search for essentialist influence is often the stricture that such bias shouldn't exist, that there exists a place of pure reason unsullied by personality and this is where judges should dwell.