Essentialism and experience

From reading this article, i think essentialism is the essence, identity, subjectivity, and experience of people.
Fuss says people use essentialism to silence others and dominate the institutional setting.
A problem she discusses is the "competition for voice" in the classroom, and how she is wary about discussing personal histories in the classroom because the basis they have might not be correctly theorized.
But this is criticized because bringing personal experience into the classroom can cause more participation from everybody in the room, enhancing learning.

"Many of the limitations she [Fuss}points out could be easily applied to the way experience informs not only what we write about, but how we write about it, the judgements we make."
Fuss also suggests that "the very discursive practices that allow for the assertion of the "authority of experience" have already been determined by politics of race, sex, and class domination.

Gender- Most of what is taught in this article comes from the writings of a black feminist writer.
Black feminist writer's believe that they need to have more more say in the classrooms, and how essentialism takes place in them.