<i><b>A history of Black Consciousness and progressive politics in apartheid South Africa</b></i>

Hadfield, Leslie Anne

doi:10.1080/03057070.2021.1976014

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Positioning Black Nurses In the Global Historical Context1

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“…[7][8][9] For instance, Cecilia Antyi Makiwane is considered the first Black woman to graduate from Lovedale Mission Hospital in South Africa in 1908. 7,10 Missionaries trained Black nurses in South Africa with the same standards as their white counterparts to construct a new elite with a new identity, stripped of their indigeneity. 8 However, by the 1930s and 1940s, (white) Afrikaner nurses constituted most of the nursing workforce, and white English nurses occupied leadership positions, 8 reinforcing beliefs about Black inferiority.…”

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Reflections on Black Nurses' Invisibility

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Wytenbroek²,

Boschma³

et al. 2023

Advances in Nursing Science

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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.

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Section: Positioning Black Nurses In the Global Historical Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%