The theme is the ethnic gestation of a new people - the Brazilian people -, constituting a process of permanent mestizaje, since the first European passed through here. From the beginning, the Luso-Amerindian mixture. The castaways and deportees begetting mestizo children in the nets or "inis" of the Tupinambás sisters. Thus are born the mamelucos or brasilindians, spreading all over the brasilian coast, to military in the "flags" or to form housing nuclei in the seafront of Rio de Janeiro or Maranhão. Then the crossings between Portuguese and blacks and between blacks and Indians. They are the mulattos and cafuzos that are multiplying by the territory conquered or in the process of conquest. Such mestizos were no longer white, not Indians, nor black. "Brazilians like Afro-Brazilians existed in a land of no one, ethnically speaking, and it is from this essential need to get rid of the nobility of non-Indians, non-Europeans and non-blacks that they are forced to create their own ethnic identity: the Brazilian ", supports the central thesis of Darcy Ribeiro. From the physical to the spiritual, it is defined in fact, and since the early colonial times, Brazil's personality as a mixed and syncretic society of the tropics, distinct from the matrices that gave rise to it.