Black Feminism: An Integrated Review of Literature.

Love, Katie L.

This study presents a systematic literature review exploring the uses and potential benefits of Black Feminism in nursing research. Black Feminism may benefit knowledge development for nursing in a variety of ways, such as illuminating the multifaceted factors of Black women's identities in helping scholars move away from generalization of experiences, to improve understanding of health disparities, and making such changes by broadening the social consciousness of the nurse researchers, who are predominantly White. Discrimination in health disparities may be deconstructed if the focus is placed on asking different research questions and offering different interventions with the social structures that contributes to such actions. When Black Feminism guides the research method (including research questions and analysis), the accuracy of representing the experiences of Black women is increased. In this research, Black Feminism highlights experience, coping mechanisms, spiritual values, a tradition of strength, and a holistic view of identity.

BLACK people; CINAHL database; ERIC (Information retrieval system); FEMINISM; HUMAN rights; PSYCHOLOGY information storage & retrieval systems; INTERPERSONAL relations; MEDLINE; NURSING research; ONLINE information services; ORGANIZATIONAL change

ABNF Journal, 2016, Vol 27, Issue 1, p11

1046-7041

Academic Journal