This work is important to the field. Débora Cristina Jeffrey (Unicamp), Acácio Sidinei Almeida Santos (UFABC), and Ricardo Alexino Ferreira (USP). In this monumental work, Sérgio José Custódio courageously analyzes the achievements and victories of social movements that fought—from grassroots preparatory courses to the Brazilian parliament—for the creation of PROUNI and the Quota Law. These represent a reinvention of the university and the Brazilian education system, as they are situated at the crossroads of knowledge and becoming rooted in Black and Indigenous ancestries that transform the structures of thought. Luciana Diogo, author of Maria Firmina dos Reis: Vida Literária and researcher at the Institute of Brazilian Studies at the University of São Paulo. In the political arena, those who oppose quotas aimed at fostering the integration of Black people, Indigenous peoples, and public school students often rely on arguments that contribute to maintaining the status quo. This work portrays this intense struggle between coalitions up to the approval of the Quota Law. I recall that, in 2010, Sérgio José Custódio and I, from the MSU Coordination, stood at the front of the stage, microphones in hand, defending the approval of the Quota Law before the massive audience of delegates at the final plenary of the National Conference on Education in Brasília. With both hands raised, they overwhelmingly voted in support of the law. It was a chant for the integration of Black people in Brazil—a powerful and emotional moment in Brazilian history, a translation of what an anti-racist coalition means in practice. By inviting readers to step inside the National Congress and witness the real clash between coalitions, the work becomes an exercise in democracy that allows the eyes to see. No one achieves anything alone. This work makes its way forward with the real and victorious history of the barefoot coalition in Brazil’s parliament. In the Amazon, in the Northeast, in the Center-West, in the South, in the Southeast—everywhere—it is worth reading, because history and struggle remain alive in our hands. Zélia Amador de Deus, Emeritus Professor at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) and former Vice-Rector of UFPA. Since Bill No. 1,332 of 1983, authored by then federal deputy Abdias do Nascimento and later reintroduced when he became a senator in 1991, quotas have been under debate in Brazil. Throughout these 41 years, the Black movement has never ceased to fight. The Quota Law was a political victory of the Black collective. This work addresses the struggle of the coalition in favor of the Quota Law within the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate until its approval in parliament—the “barefoot coalition”—with particular emphasis on MSU and EDUCAFRO, in which one can observe the continuity of the educational teachings of the Black Experimental Theater (TEN) and Paulo Freire. From the march of those without access to university, wearing academic gowns, to transforming Carandiru into a public university—a place deeply tied to the life of Abdias do Nascimento—the MSU decided to march to the Brazilian parliament and go all the way for the approval of the Quota Law, as the work shows. Guerreiro Ramos provides the central theoretical support for this study. A fundamental work that deserves to be read! Elisa Larkin Nascimento, co-founder and current director of the Institute for Afro-Brazilian Research and Studies (IPEAFRO) in Rio de Janeiro, where she coordinates the Abdias do Nascimento archive.