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De Sousa, Ismalia; Wytenbroek, Lydia; Boschma, Geertje; Thorne, Sally
2024
Reflections on Black Nurses' Invisibility: Exploring the Contribution of Black Nurses to British Columbia (Canada), 1845-1910.
Black nurses are at the margins of the annals of history and there is a dearth of historical accounts of their work. Drawing on our historical research about Black nurses in British Columbia (Canada) between 1845 and 1910, we point to the complexity of Black women's lives and argue that Black nurses disrupted the conceptualization of Blackness and Black womanhood of the time. We demonstrate the vital contributions of Black nurses to the health of communities and add to existing scholarship that redefines the nursing narrative: one in which white nurses are not the start and end point of history.
ANS. Advances in nursing science
47
16-28
10.1097/ANS.0000000000000484
Gender, Health Human Resources-General, Workplace/Worklife Issues-General
Nurses-Unspecified
Unspecified
Observational
Canada-British Columbia
Journal Article
Published Literature
English
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion