Black woman, teacher and historian: the work of Maria Eremita de Souza (1913-2003) in Serro, MG, 1913 to 2003

Abstract

We propose to write a brief biography of Maria Eremita de Souza, who was born in Serro, MG in 1913 and died in 2003. We demonstrate how her existential trajectory as a Black woman, teacher and historian reveals a Constant resistance to provincial, patriarchal, religious, sexist, racial, cultural and professional standards of the conservative city of Serro in the twentieth century. Using her personal archives, were created some of her biographical data and present a pari passu discussion using some notions of the contemporary feminist movement, especially that of “place of speech” intersectioned with studies on the “dynamics of miscegenation” in colonial Brazil.