essentialize , also: esentialise BrE

She does not essentialize Jamaicains, Bengalis, Muslims, or any group of people.

These locales provided Dove with inspiration for paintings that essentialize natural phenomena and record the artist's subjective responses to his surroundings.

To these critics, primitivism such as Gauguin's demonstrates fantasies about racial and sexual difference in "an effort to essentialize notions of primitiveness" with "Otherness".

This therefore tends to essentialize 'the prejudiced individual'- the prejudiced teacher or student - who becomes the target for pedagogies that are supposed to cure them of this pathology.

The report cites several instances where mainstream or close to mainstream journalists, authors and academics have made analyses that essentialize negative traits as an inherent part of Muslims' moral makeup.

Certain feminists, this author argues, have also problematically sought to essentialize women out of an apparent necessity for "unity" of all women and a unified understanding this category (151).

Nevertheless, while he believes that "any path out of capitalism must also be eco-feminist", he criticises types of ecofeminism that are not anti-capitalist and can "essentialize women's closeness to nature and build from there, submerging history into nature", becoming more at place in the "comforts of the New Age Growth Centre".

To celebrate this year's milestone in Newport, R.I., Mr. Wein had the idea to go serious: to categorize, to essentialize, to devote a whole festival to what put him on the map in the first place, in the days when Ellington, Monk, Miles and Mulligan regularly created a stir.