The period of the fusion and the mixing of all peoples. This article needs additional citations for verification. In this influential 1925 essay, presented here in spanish and english, jose vasconcelos predicted the coming of an aesthetic era, in which joy, love, fantasy, and creativity would prevail over the rationalismand ethnic differences would give way to a fully mixed race, a cosmic race, in which all the better qualities of each race would persist by the natural selection of love. Just as science fiction is otrwise known as speculative literature, one might consider the cosmic race a speculatil ethnography.
Vasconceloss philosophy of the cosmic race affected all aspects of mexican sociocultural, political, and economic policies. This bilingual edition of the cosmic race by jose vasconcelos gives the reader a clear and. Shama e shab e stan e raza, shama shabestanraza, terapia cosmica. The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors. If it available for your country it will shown as book reader and user fully subscribe. Jose vasconcelos calderon 28 february 1882 30 june 1959 has been called the cultural caudillo of the mexican revolution. The civilization developed and organized in our times by the whites has set the moral and material basis for the union of all men into a fifth universal race, the fruit of all the previous ones and amelioration of everything past. The study of orientalism in vasconcelos intervenes in the field of mexican. Learn how and when to remove these template messages. Mexican border, where he attended schools in eagle pass, texas. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book.
Click download or read online button to thecosmicracelarazacosmicaraceintheamericas book pdf for free now. October learn how and when to remove this template message. Jose vasconcelos 18821959 had campaigned for francisco madero, the demo cratically. The cosmic race california state university, sacramento. It is a dense piece of rhetoric filled with internal contradictions and ambivalent motives. Download thecosmicracelarazacosmicaraceintheamericas ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. He was an important mexican writer, philosopher and politician. Jose vasconcelos was born in the southern mexican state of oaxaca in. Jose vasconcelos jose vasconcelos 18821959 was among the most important and influential mexican intellectuals of the twentieth century. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want.
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