{"id":49314,"date":"2016-10-04T00:45:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T00:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49314"},"modified":"2016-10-04T00:45:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T00:45:52","slug":"an-extraordinary-life-elizabeth-anionwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49314","title":{"rendered":"An extraordinary life: Elizabeth Anionwu"},"content":{"rendered":"

An extraordinary life: Elizabeth Anionwu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Nursing Standard<\/a>
\n2016-10-02<\/p>\n

Thelma Agnew<\/strong><\/a>, Commissioning Editor<\/p>\n

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\nElizabeth Anionwu<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n

Celebrated nurse Elizabeth Anionwu<\/a> spent 9 years in care as a child, and her early life was marked by racism and the stigma of illegitimacy.\u00a0 In her new book she reveals how she found her Nigerian father, and why being an \u2018outsider\u2019 made her a better nurse<\/em><\/p>\n

Before she sat down to write her autobiography, Elizabeth Anionwu interviewed 30 friends and relatives. There were details she couldn\u2019t remember, gaps she needed to fill.\u00a0 But she also did it because she was determined that this would not be an \u2018I, I, I\u2019 memoir; she wanted other people\u2019s perspectives.<\/p>\n

These reflections on Professor Anionwu at different stages in her life \u2013 from the thoroughly English nursing student of the 1960s to the \u2018radical health visitor\u2019 of the 70s and today\u2019s eminent professor and campaigner, proud of her Nigerian and Irish heritage – are peppered through Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

People who knew her 50 or 40 years ago recall a bright, politically curious young woman, who, despite her shyness, was prepared to ask difficult questions. She almost failed her health visiting course after daring to challenge a service\u2019s dubious approach to collecting data on patient ethnicity.<\/p>\n

The reflections also deliver one of the book\u2019s jolting moments.\u00a0 A friend, Janet, says: \u2018You were doing well in nursing, but I do remember saying to my sister it\u2019s a shame that Elizabeth will never be able to go very far in nursing because of her colour…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An extraordinary life: Elizabeth Anionwu Nursing Standard 2016-10-02 Thelma Agnew, Commissioning Editor Elizabeth Anionwu Celebrated nurse Elizabeth Anionwu spent 9 years in care as a child, and her early life was marked by racism and the stigma of illegitimacy.\u00a0 In her new book she reveals how she found her Nigerian father, and why being an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,10],"tags":[16594,24360,25138],"class_list":["post-49314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-elizabeth-anionwu","tag-nursing-standard","tag-thelma-agnew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49315,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49314\/revisions\/49315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}