In this text I talk about the intellectual history of black women. Historiograph-ical and Pedagogic approach based on the black feminist perspective of valuing the identities, experiences and readings of the world of black women for the construction of new theoretical frameworks, defined based on our interests as a group. Inspired by the historian Maria Beatriz Nascimento and her proposal to build an “existential and physical (new) territory” for black subjectivities, I open a dialogue about the importance that localized knowledge – “first person narra-tives” – produced in the classroom of the course Intelectuais Negras UFRJ by young black women, “first in the family to enter university”, represent for the new historians generations and for the study and production of new documentary sources of a post-abolition history in the present time. The text highlights debates about the importance of self-definition in historical research, the concept of “black female intellectual” and the forging of a research agenda in black feminist social history that black women see themselves as subject of knowledge.
