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White on whiteness: becoming radicalized about race
1Memorial University, St John's, NL, Canada. diana.gustafson@med.mun.ca
Nursing Inquiry
|May 24, 2007
Summary
This reflective study explores the construction of white identity in nursing, highlighting its absent presence, need for opposition, entitlement, and denial of dominance. Understanding these features is crucial for addressing race in healthcare.
Area of Science:
- Sociology of Health and Illness
- Critical Race Theory in Healthcare
- Nursing Professional Identity
Background:
- Reflective practice over 5 years focused on race and whiteness.
- Exploration of white identity from the social location of a white nurse.
Purpose of the Study:
- Critically examine the production of white identity.
- Analyze the social location and unmarked discourse in nursing research and knowledge creation.
- Investigate four key features of white identity: absent presence, oppositional identity, entitlement, and denial of dominance.
Main Methods:
- Critical reflective practice.
- Analysis of personal social location as a white nurse.
- Examination of hegemonic discourse in nursing knowledge.
Main Results:
- Identified four characteristics of white identity: absent presence, need for oppositional identity, entitlement to choice/subjectivity, and denial of dominance.
- Highlighted the reproduction of racialized identities in nursing practice and research.
Conclusions:
- Understanding whiteness is critical due to neoliberalism and culturalist diversity approaches.
- Examining racialization reveals the historiography of whiteness and race difference.
- Addresses the institutionalization of race beliefs impacting nursing practice and research.
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