Just as science fiction is otrwise known as speculative literature, one might consider the cosmic race a speculatil ethnography. 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 rationalism. Dec 28, 2017 exploring the origins behind the ideology behind the concept of cosmic race by jose vasconcelos. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. President obama himself is biracial, and according the the u. The cosmic race, mestizaje and the racism of jose vasconcelos. Having fulfilled their destiny of mechanizing the world, they themselves have set, without knowing it, the basis for the new period.
Whatever the test scores, as the theory goes, the raza students are just better people. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand. 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. He was an important mexican writer, philosopher and politician. Three short essays on mestizaje literally, crossbreeding introduce. The cosmic race is a historic text that should be in the personal library of undergraduate and graduate students of latin america. In a nation of 325 million there are bound to be racists. What happened in mexico genetically is exactly what elmer pendell described in his great book why. He is one of the most influential and controversial personalities in the development of modern mexico.
Shama e shab e stan e raza, shama shabestanraza book. Apr 25, 2014 that was before his election, and before his administration deported 2 million people. He was educated in catholic grammar and high schools, and he attended stanford and columbia universities, where he took. The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors. This edition by john hopkins university press presents the complete essay in original spanish and in english.
Shama e shab e stan e raza, shama shabestan raza book. Internet archive contributor internet archive language spanish. The author jose vasconcelos thesis is that mexicans who he defines as a combination of indigenous and. Jose vasconcelos books list of books by author jose vasconcelos. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Often rendered as the bronze race, it was indeed a racialized term. But if you examine the demographics, the cosmic race seems to be emerging. The period of the fusion and the mixing of all peoples. In it, vasconcelos foresaw his fifth race arising from superior mexican racial elementsafter having. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. 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.
It is a dense piece of rhetoric filled with internal contradictions and ambivalent motives. This mixture of races provides hyprid progency, a mutable, more malleable species with a rich gene pool. Exploring the origins behind the ideology behind the concept of cosmic race by jose vasconcelos. While vasconceloss theory turned the white supremacist racism of the day on its head, it remains at heart a racist. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. This, vasconcelos believed, would be the race of the future. Jose vasconcelos calderon 28 february 1882 30 june 1959 has been called the cultural caudillo of the mexican revolution.
Spanish creole, and a member of that dwindling ruling ethnic caste. Argentina y brasil mission of the iberoamerican race. For as different as we all may seem, when intricacies are compared. Inspire a love of reading with prime book box for kids discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1. In this spirit, he argued that the latin american mestizo constituted a new race, a cosmic race, which combined the virtues of indians and europeans.