School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Nurs Inq. 2022 Jan;29(1):e12473. doi: 10.1111/nin.12473. Epub 2021 Nov 24.
Femininity and whiteness dominate Western nursing, silencing ontologies and epistemologies that do not align with these dominant norms while perpetuating systemic racism and discrimination in nursing practice, education, research, nursing activism, and sociopolitical structures. We propose Black feminist thought as a praxis to decenter, deconstruct, and unseat these ideologies and systems of power. Drawing from the work of past and present Black feminist scholars, we examine the ontological and epistemological perspectives of Black feminist thought. These include (i) the uniqueness and particular experiences of people, (ii) the acceptance of ontological and epistemological pluralism of truths and ways of knowing, and (iii) the mandate for equity in the health, social, political, and environmental structures of society. By focusing our attention on lived experiences and voices of those systematically excluded in nursing practice, education, research, and society, Black feminist thought offers an anticolonial, antiracist, and antidiscriminatory foundation for more effectively upholding nursing's disciplinary mandate for social justice and equity.
女性特质和白色人种主导着西方护理，使不符合这些主流规范的本体论和认识论沉默，同时在护理实践、教育、研究、护理行动主义和社会政治结构中延续系统性种族主义和歧视。我们提出黑人女性主义思想作为一种实践，以使这些意识形态和权力体系失去中心、解构和推翻。我们从过去和现在的黑人女性主义学者的工作中，研究了黑人女性主义思想的本体论和认识论观点。这些观点包括：(i) 个人的独特性和特殊经历；(ii) 对真理和认知方式的本体论和认识论多元化的接受；(iii) 在社会的健康、社会、政治和环境结构中实现公平的要求。通过关注护理实践、教育、研究和社会中被系统排斥的人的生活经历和声音，黑人女性主义思想为更有效地维护护理的社会正义和公平的学科使命提供了一个反殖民、反种族主义和反歧视的基础。
