Puzan Elayne
University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Nurs Inq. 2003 Sep;10(3):193-200. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-1800.2003.00180.x.
My purpose in writing this paper is to uncover some of the ways in which nursing participates in, reproduces, and resists the detrimental practices associated with white cultural privilege and to share some instances of its personal and social costs. It draws upon the body of scholarship which interrogates racism as it is enacted through whiteness in North America. Whiteness is depicted not as a preordained biological property, but as a socially constructed category of race, wherein non-white people are racially designated, while whites escape such designation and occupy positions which allow them to carry on as if what they say is neutral, rather than historically and ideologically situated. While the concept of whiteness may not have much resonance in nursing, it offers another way to talk about racism, one that does not stop with the scrutiny of the racialized Other. The presumed neutrality of whiteness has been institutionalized so that its authority to define knowledge, membership, and language, as well as its ability to stipulate and enforce the rules and regulations of everyday concourse and discourse within nursing is concealed.
我撰写本文的目的是揭示护理在参与、复制和抵制与白人文化特权相关的有害行为方面的一些方式，并分享一些其个人和社会代价的实例。它借鉴了一系列学术研究成果，这些研究探讨了北美地区通过白人身份表现出来的种族主义。白人身份并非被描绘为一种预先注定的生物学属性，而是一种社会建构的种族类别，在这个类别中，非白人被进行种族认定，而白人则逃避这种认定，并占据一些位置，使他们能够表现得好像他们所说的话是中立的，而不是处于特定的历史和意识形态背景之中。虽然白人身份的概念在护理领域可能没有太多共鸣，但它提供了另一种谈论种族主义的方式，这种方式不会仅仅停留在对被种族化的他者的审视上。白人身份假定的中立性已经制度化，以至于其定义知识、成员资格和语言的权威，以及规定和执行护理领域日常交流和话语的规则与条例的能力都被隐藏起来。
