he's very conscious of being from what is, in some ways, the most traditional colonial region of Brazil.  He has an unusual background.  He goes to an English speaking Southern Baptist school, so he grows up speaking English as well as Portuguese, and he goes off to Baylor University in Waco, Texas at the age of 17 in 1917, which is really on the fringes of the South and the beginnings of the West.  He finished his degree in three years and he becomes and Anglophile. He goes off to New York, does a masters in social science, what he would call anthropology, with one of the most famous figures in modern anthropology, Franz Boas.  It's really Boaz is the one who pushes this notion that culture and biological inheritance are two different things, they're not connected.So Freyre goes back to Brazil, after a long tour in Europe, he's an English speaker not a French speaker, his time is spent mainly in the United States, and he begins to write a book about Brazilian colonial history.  Once it's published in 1933, it's called, in English, The Masters and the Slaves but quite literally, the title in Portuguese is The Big House and the Slave Quarters.  This is taking this huge debate about Brazilian identity and saying, look, it is true.  We're a racially mixed people, we're culturally mixed, primarily of Africans and Europeans, this does not make us inferior, this makes us better and more distinct than anyone else on