International event that brings together researchers from Brazil and the United States will take place between February 24 and 25 in Cidade Universitária. The International Seminar "Places, Margins and Relationships: race, color and miscegenation in afro-american experience " is intended to be a first step toward establishing an international network of researchers, thus acting as a forum for discussion of diverse historical experiences in the Americas to expand and test concepts forged from the regional, but it can extend to the diversity of afro-american experience, understood the intersection of disciplines and different times. The seminar is organized by: Professor Antonio Sergio A. Guimarães, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia da USP; Professor Lilia Schwarcz, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia da USP and Professor Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University.

In charge of the support of the event are: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia da USP, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia/USP, Princeton University and Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia para Estudos da Metrópole/INCT-CEM.

The debate about race and colour, which goes through the Americas’ history from colonization until now, has been recovered from perspectives often restrictive, developed through relatively closed national or geographic frameworks. Rarely critical thought opens up, in fact and in depth, to the variety and similitude that concomitantly bring near and outdo natural historical experiences that are lived from the confluence of diverse cultural sources on American soil. Miscegenation, hybridity, transculturation, balance of antagonisms are all expressions that are forged to give an account of listening and imagination of the Other, seen and understood in its ambivalence, as the subject of actions and object of curiosity, more or less accepted or rejected, always closer or away from a literate culture or practices considered "oral".