Individuals have different abilities to exert control and influence in situations or relationships. Many power relations exist within our social, economic, and political structures and institutions. P [..]

People in the dominant culture come to see the effects of colonization as normal or natural and are unable to see their privilege. They assume that everyone shares their view of the order of things, i [..]

Ramsden,10 a Maori nurse leader, developed the concept of cultural safety in nursing education to draw attention to colonizing processes in Aotearoa/New Zealand (A/NZ). She was not only concerned with [..]

Transcultural nursing theory promotes cultural sensitivity. According to Anderson et al.(p.197), transcultural nursing is concerned with understanding the "health beliefs and practices of differe [..]

The use of genetic or biological background as a basis for assumptions about individuals or groups. In racism, racialized groups are seen as different from other individuals or groups and are treated [..]

"... a socially constructed phenomenon based on the erroneous assumption that physical differences such as skin color, hair color, and texture, and facial features are related to intellectual, mo [..]

"The term racialization has been adopted to emphasize the process whereby populations have been socially constructed as races, usually based on real or imagined cultural, physical and/or genetic [..]

A system of unearned freedoms, rights, benefits, advantages, and access afforded members of the dominant group in a society. This is usually taken for granted by individuals as they are taught not to [..]

Refers to current processes of colonization that maintain social and political structures, institutions, and practices that differentially privilege members of the dominant group.22

The process of viewing or relating to persons in a way that depersonalizes them. When people are objectified, they cease to be thought of as living, thinking, and experiencing individuals (subjects) a [..]