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2. Bonini SM, Matias CE. The impact of Whiteness on the education of nurses. J Prof Nurs. 2021;37(3):620-5. doi:10.1016/j.profnurs.2021.02.009
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4. Clark N, Saleh N. Applying critical race feminism and intersectionality to narrative inquiry: A point of resistance for Muslim nurses donning a hijab. ANS Adv Nurs Sci. 2019;42(2):156-71. doi:10.1097/ANS.0000000000000267
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11. Iheduru-Anderson KC. The White/Black hierarchy institutionalizes White supremacy in nursing and nursing leadership in the United States. J Prof Nurs. 2021;37(2):411-21. doi:10.1016/j.profnurs.2020.05.005
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1. Lim S, Boutain DM, Kim E, Evans‐Agnew RA, Parker S, Maldonado Nofziger R. Institutional procedural discrimination, institutional racism, and other institutional discrimination: A nursing research example. Nursing Inquiry. 2022;29(1):e12474. doi:10.1111/nin.12474
2. Pickler RH, Munro CL, Likis FE. Addressing racism in editorial practices. Nurse Author & Editor (Blackwell). 2020 Dec; 30(4):38–40. 
3. Rabelais E, Walker RK. Ethics, health disparities, and discourses in oncology nursing’s research: If we know the problems, why are we asking the wrong questions? Journal of Clinical Nursing. 2021;30(5-6):892-899. doi:10.1111/jocn.15569
4. Rubin SL. The clinical trials nurse as subject advocate for minority and culturally diverse research subjects. Journal of Transcultural Nursing. 2014;25(4):383-7. doi:10.1177/1043659614523999
5. Thurman WA, Johnson KE, Sumpter DF. Words matter: An integrative review of institutionalized racism in nursing literature. Advances in Nursing Science. 2019;42(2):89-108. doi:10.1097/ANS.0000000000000265
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This list, compiled by Reference & Instruction Librarian Carrie Levinson, was last updated 4/14/22.

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