Aspectos étnicos na configuração da enfermagem moderna no Rio de Janeiro nos anos 20 e 30

Abstract

Study was accomplished in the social history perspective and has as purpose the acess of negress women into the students staff of Anna Nery Nursing School, coming from the racial prejudice. Theincludes the years of 20 and 30, period that correponds to the foreign nurses predominance in the direction of the institution to coordinate and to direct the 'study, objectives were elabored such as the description of the difficulties of the entrance of negress and mestizo women into the students staff, in the beginning of the school. The analysis of the difficulties of this admission and the discussion of the circumstances that made possible the graduation of some negress and mestizo women in the Anna Nery Nursin School. The written and photografic documents used to make the research belong to the Documentation Center of Anna Nery Nursing School's heritage, two alumnae's statements were also taken. The analysis of those primary sources, as well as of the pertinent literature made evident the existence of racism pratics more or less hidden. From this way the negress and mestizo women that achieved to enter the school had to break the chains and cross over the obstades to graduate themselves. Despite of this negress women alumnae emphasized the importance of having obtained the nursin diploma for their lives' history.