El presente artículo tiene como objetivo identificar las representaciones sociales en torno a "lo negro" que estuvieron presentes en la escena teatral de Mérida, Yucatán, durante las primeras décadas del siglo xx, encarnándose en actores y actrices cuyo papel era el del negrito, el negro catedrático o la mulata. Asimismo, esas representaciones trascendieron el teatro para aparecer también en historias de personajes populares, carnavales y publicidad. Para dichos fines se consultó uno de los principales medios de comunicación de la época: el periódico. Mediante la búsqueda, recopilación y análisis de estas fuentes hemerográficas, se encontraron imágenes que circularon en diferentes espacios culturales de la ciudad, por lo que el análisis de fuentes visuales resultó fundamental.

This article presents the results of a qualitative investigation carried out during 2016 and 2017 on 72 young, middle-class women from three public universities in Mexico City. The aim of the study was to know their practices and social representations in their experience of living and circulating in the public interconnection spaces of the city. For this, the starting point is the question of how they represent two of the physical public interconnection spaces they use: The streets they travel along to go to their universities and public transport. But also, the public spaces they travel to: Universities, museums and parks. What is their spatial experience like when moving around in the city? The results display the conditions of insecurity and violence faced by these women in their daily lives and their representations of a city that stalks and neglects them, the city that naturalizes harassment, the city that is unequal for women when it comes to their ways of transportation in, and the representation of, these spaces.