ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. This book presents the ancestral waves of inherited power and unearned privilege conferred on white nurses and scholars working and living in the United States (US). This privilege is accentuated by the systems of white supremacy that overdetermine the US healthcare (non)system and within the elite spaces of nursing academe around the world. The book includes chapters from influential nursing scholars whose work emanates from critical, radical, and emancipatory perspectives spanning three continents and five countries, including the US, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom (UK), and Germany. It examines the assumptions, ideologies, and discourses that shape the discipline and its place within healthcare more broadly including critiques of neoliberalism and whiteness, and unpacking disciplinary framings of culture and iconic myths tied to nursing's origin story.
