Race and gender are articulated in different contexts, in this article we will focus on the scenario of Black Social Clubs and Black/Samba-Rock Balls in the capital and in the interior of the state of São Paulo, based on ethnographic data, interviews and collection of audiovisual materials. Restrictions on the access of the black population to the wider society after the post-abolition period are part of the emergency scenario of black social clubs, as well as of the balls, in this sense these spaces appear and develop in order to guarantee recreational, cultural or cultural activities. beneficiaries for a specific group. In social clubs, recreational activities such as gala balls, debutante balls and miss won parades are taken as an expression of the intersection between gender and race in the construction of a specific form of sociability. Currently, the clubs, as well as the events held inside, have suffered a drastic reduction, being replaced by samba-rock balls. Here, the ethnographic data present us with sufficient elements to analyze the continuities and the ruptures between performances and stereotypes of gender and race, especially when we reflect on the social role developed by women and the expected / desired performance. The article investigates, therefore, the negotiations that the spaces in question present regarding the representations about the feminine from the intersection between race and gender.