Gilberto Freyre: e o mito se faz história

Instead of make a defense of Gilberto Freyre, this paper escaping from some readings that seem to impoverish the Freyre's work, intends to place it in the brazilian issues context during the beginning of the XX century. We propose to dislocate the reading focus of "Casa Grande & Senzala, abandoning the "racial democracy" concept grasp of another idea, which seems to be fundamental to his thought, the "antagonism equilibrium". Maybe this new focus can let us closer to the Freyre's contribution to understand the contemporary brazilian reality