Anti-Racist Nursing and Midwifery

Anandi Ramamurthy is Emeritus Professor at Sheffield Hallam University and led the research project Nursing Narratives: Racism and the Pandemic. She has authored five books on racism and culture.Sadiq Bhanbhro is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Health and Social Care Research (CARe) at Sheffield Hallam University and a member of the Nursing Narratives team.Ken Fero is Assistant Professor at Regent’s University London and founder of Migrant Media. His award-winning films include Injustice (2001) and Ultraviolence (2020).Rachel Ambrose is a Registered Mental Health and Specialist Community Public Health Nurse. She is committed to inclusive practice in health and education and lectures at Oxford Brookes University.

• Introduction 1. The Realities of Racism 2.Navigating Power 3. Stand Your Ground, But Not At Any Cost 4. Don’t Suffer in Silence 5. The Struggle for Fair Treatment as an Internationally Educated Nurse 6. Survival Struggle of a Migrant Nurse in the NHS 7. Confronting Racialised Danger in the Pandemic 8. A Healthcare Assistant Speaks Out 9. Intersectionality and Everyday Racism 10. Overcoming Racism in Midwifery 11. Challenging Racism Across Borders 12. The Standard of Whiteness 13. Lift as You Climb 14. Standing Up to Racism Empowered my Mental Health and Well-being 15. Challenging Racism in Mental Health 16. Against the Grain: A Nurse’s Fight for an Inclusive NHS 17. Challenging National Healthcare Institutions Through Frontline Activism 18. Black Healthcare Workers Organising for Justice 19. An Anti-Racist Health Service: Our Manifesto for Change

'Anti-Racist Nursing and Midwifery is a powerful and deeply moving book that exposes the realities of racism within the nursing and midwifery profession. Through the courageous testimonies of Black and Brown nurses and midwives, it evokes a wide range of emotions—pain, anger, heartbreak, and, importantly, hope. The narratives illuminate the strength, resilience, and perseverance required to continue providing care in the face of injustice. This book provides valuable guidance for practitioners worldwide.'Lucinda Canty PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, FADLN, Founder of Overdue Reckoning on Racism, US'This work marks a groundbreaking shift away from damage-centered research, which too often focuses solely on stories of pain and positions racially marginalized participants as victims. Instead, it engages and centers the perspectives of Black, Brown and migrant care workers—particularly nurses—who have been rendered less than human and less worthy of care by neo-colonial/racialized systems of knowledge and power relations, a reality made especially evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. It delves deeply into the subversive waters of creative resistance to bring individual and collective stories of agency to the surface, and to enable self-determined and transformative knowledge creation and mobilization. In a European healthcare context where racism is considered a silent/silenced phenomenon, this work contributes to breaking that silence by offering a compelling and necessary resource for reflection and action. It identifies critical areas for institutional change, and underscores the broader power structures that must be addressed in order to advance equity and justice in nursing. The book is vital reading for policy makers, professionals, students, and activists alike.'Tanja Gangarova, National Monitoring of Discrimination and Racism (NaDiRa) DeZIM Institute, Berlin‘This brilliant book makes for difficult but essential reading for nurses and those managing and leading health services in England. The fact is, the NHS needs nurses and midwives from all backgrounds to shore up and deliver high quality services for an aging and growing population. It therefore has a responsibility to take note of the harrowing experiences of nurses and midwives in this book and consider ways of mitigating the impact of racism on this very important part of the NHS workforce. It will be my go-to book for lots of information on ethnic minority nurses and midwives working in the NHS.’Yvonne Coghill, Former Director, Workforce Race Equality Standard, NHS, board member of NHS Race and Health Observatory'An indispensable book for those looking to see how the persistence of racism in all parts of British society results not only in micro-aggressions but the deprivation of life itself! Health care workers bore the brunt of a biological virus that was super-charged by the virulent, vicious racism that pervades the NHS. These awe-inspiring testimonies bear witness to the utmost resilience and humanity of Black and Brown staff faced with the intensification of everyday racial harassment and inequality. Ending with an urgent manifesto for change this is a tool for educators and activists alike. It stands along with the accompanying film as a testimony to all those who gave their lives, without discrimination, in the battle against Covid-19.'Virinder S. Kalra, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick