The aim of this research was to analyse current social representations of ‘black’ alterities of African origin, in particular migrants from sub-Saharan African countries and indigenous African descent and migrants, in national society. This is in view of the arrival of a new stream of migrants from the above origin and an institutional environment of visibility for Afro-descendants. It also considers its contextualisation and contrast with the historical invisibility of the ‘black’ alterities in Argentina. The research carried out focuses on interpersonal communication situations between ‘black’ African migrants from the sub-Saharan region and non-black people in national society, surveys and drawings prepared at the request of trained police officers of the province of Buenos Aires, journalistic texts published in local/national press outlets with online editions and publications of African migrants’ institutions and Afro-descendants on their own social media. In view of the diversity of units, fields and analysis materials, we develop an interdisciplinary approach using multiple tools for reporting and analysing information, addressing the representations of ‘black’ alterities in their historical, anthropological, communicational and political complexity. In this context, we are generally aware of a lack of social knowledge of the historical presence and current situation of Afro-descendants and of denial. alienation, exotism and exotisation of ‘black’ people of African origin in daily interactions between ‘black’ people (African migrants) and no- ‘black’ people (from national society) and in symbolic productions of state actors and local/national press media, such as the centrality of ethnic ‘racial’ claims, the distortion of historical invisibility and the emphasis on Afro-descendant memories in speeches by current institutions of African migrants and Afro-descendants. Faculty of Journalism and Social Communication