Gustafson Diana L
Memorial University, St John's, NL, Canada.
Nurs Inq. 2007 Jun;14(2):153-61. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2007.00365.x.
Race difference and whiteness--key elements in the construction of my cultural identity - became a focus of my reflective practice that began over 5 years ago. This article reflects critically on the production of white identity from my social location as a white nurse. My attention focused on two aspects of whiteness: the social location from which I live and learn, and the hegemonic but unmarked discourse that informs the knowledge I read and create as a researcher. My white identity is characterized by four features: the absent presence of whiteness; the need for an oppositional identity; the entitlement of choice and subjectivity; and the denial of a dominant position and relation to the racialized Other. Exploring these features is critically important at this juncture in global and professional history because of the persistence of neoliberalism and the popularity of culturalist approaches to diversity. Examining the process of my radicalization about race simultaneously calls attention to the historiography of ideas about whiteness and race difference and the institutionalization of beliefs and practices about race difference that continuously reproduce racialized identities and inform collective nursing practice and research.
种族差异与白人身份——构建我文化身份的关键要素——成为我五年多前开始的反思性实践的焦点。本文批判性地反思了作为一名白人护士，从我的社会位置出发所产生的白人身份。我的注意力集中在白人身份的两个方面：我生活和学习的社会位置，以及作为研究者，为我所阅读和创造的知识提供信息的霸权但未被标记的话语。我的白人身份具有四个特征：白人身份的无形存在；对立身份的需求；选择和主观性的权利；以及对主导地位和与被种族化的“他者”关系的否认。在全球和专业历史的这个关键时刻，探索这些特征至关重要，因为新自由主义的持续存在以及文化主义的多样性方法的流行。审视我关于种族的激进化过程，同时也让人关注关于白人身份和种族差异的思想史，以及关于种族差异的信仰和实践的制度化，这些不断再生产被种族化的身份，并为集体护理实践和研究提供信息。
