Black Women and Coronavirus in the United Kingdom: The Need for a Black Feminist Epidemiology

As the extent and reach of coronavirus emerged globally, one of my first thoughts was about how other Black women had experienced and survived such pandemics in the past. I searched the literature for the experiences of Black women in the United Kingdom during the 1918–19 influenza pandemic. Not only could I not find any accounts or narratives written by Black women, but it appeared that although there has been a Black presence in Britain since Roman times (Fryer 2018) and there were Black communities in the United Kingdom in 1918, they had been written out of history. Green