On Having Whiteness and The unbearable whiteness of being

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On Having Whiteness
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34039063/

Abstract

Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has-a
malignant, parasitic-like condition to which "white" people have a
particular susceptibility. The condition is foundational, generating
characteristic ways of being in one's body, in one's mind, and in one's
world. Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts' appetites voracious,
insatiable, and perverse. These deformed appetites particularly target
nonwhite peoples. Once established, these appetites are nearly
impossible to eliminate. Effective treatment consists of a combination
of psychic and social-historical interventions. Such interventions can
reasonably aim only to reshape Whiteness's infiltrated appetites-to
reduce their intensity, redistribute their aims, and occasionally turn
those aims toward the work of reparation. When remembered and
represented, the ravages wreaked by the chronic condition can function
either as warning ("never again") or as temptation ("great again").
Memorialization alone, therefore, is no guarantee against regression.
There is not yet a permanent cure.



The unbearable whiteness of being (in nursing)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12940974/


Abstract

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.