Abstract
This article presents the results of a documentary ethnography, whose research object was the professionalization of nursing in Brazil. Based on primary documents dated between 1925 and 1931, the objective was to analyze and discuss how the discourses built about the new profession and the new profession were supported by an important influence of the eugenicist movement. These discourses, which constituted structural violence, produced from a whitened place of power, sought to build the socially accepted image of a profession that had broken with its colonial bonds of care, practiced in the country mostly by black women. From the anthropological and intersectional perspective, we sought to contribute to counter-narratives capable of questioning that hegemonic that permeates the construction of the profession in the country.
Keywords
racism; eugenics; nursing