In this, which was considered by the author of
works of his life, Darcy Ribeiro shows the training and sense of Brazil. Trying to answer the question: Why Brazil still not satisfied? He tries a theory that in general become explainable in terms themselves as the teorizações eurocêntricas are powerless to make intelligible. Darcy works with the theory that the Brazilian is a new nation, that emerges as a national ethnicity,
different shades of their training, singularizada the redefinition of cultural traits and dinamizada a culture sincrética due to large fusion. A
people that you see and that is seen as new people, different from all known. Owner of a joy and happiness will of astonishing that in a
nation so sacrificed, alenta and comove all Brazilians. In the book, begins with an
analysis of the process of gestation ethnic giving birth to the original nuclei, multiplied, came to form the Brazilian people. Make a study of the lines of diversification that set our regional modes to be, and concludes with a criticism of the institutional system installed in Brazil - the land and property system of
Work - under which the Brazilian people emerged and grew, embarrassed and deformed. His analysis is passionate and nothing exempt - not that diminish the value of the work - which seeks influence on the people and aspires to help Brazil to find for itself