This work reports a research aimed at understanding and when the insight into female blackness
occurs, as well as what are the most favorable social conditions for such an event. Interest in
this topic arises from the following question: What are the social aspects that prevent the
instantaneous perception of being a black person, unlike what happens to white people? To
reach the conclusion of guiding questions such as this, the present work resorts to
bibliographical research, seeking dissertations, theses and scientific articles that have reports,
memories and narratives of black women who have experienced what has been called
“awakening to their own blackness”. In addition to bibliographic materials, music and other
manifestations with potential to express production processes in black women will be consulted.
This methodological strategy has the strategy of covering the complexity inherent to the
subjective processes associated with the research participants, considering that each experience
is uniquely felt in each woman. In addition, it is worth noting that in the proposal here we seek
to carry out analyses, reflections and debates based on concepts and theoretical constructions
arising from approaches such as: psychoanalysis, socio-historical psychology and, obviously,
from the insights and problematizations made by intellectuals and for black intellectuals who
are so important for the production of knowledge about the racial issue, such as: Grada Kilomba,
Lélia Gonzales, Neusa Santos, Djamila Ribeiro among others and others. Even knowing the
impossibility of a process as complex as the awakening to blackness to be grasped and explained
by an approach or theory circumscribed to the domain of academic-scientific knowledge, the
aim is to bring together concepts and theoretical constructs thought of and used as tools capable
of guide the analytical and discursive production proposed by the research. Furthermore, in this
way, we can infer some of the possible factors that challenge this issue, such as: racism,
whitening policies, exclusion processes and other forms of subjection imposed on black women.
Given the above, the work brings to the debate the complexity linked to the recognition and
construction of one's own identity and the production associated with the awakening of black
women.
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