The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors. This, vasconcelos believed, would be the race of the future. 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. While vasconceloss theory turned the white supremacist racism of the day on its head, it remains at heart a racist. English kept on mixing only with the whites and annihilated the natives.
In this influential 1925 essay, presented here in spanish and english, jose vasconcelos. Just as science fiction is otrwise known as speculative literature, one might consider the cosmic race a speculatil ethnography. Having fulfilled their destiny of mechanizing the world, they themselves have set, without knowing it, the basis for the new period. Unsourced material may be challenged cosmiic removed. 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. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. If it available for your country it will shown as book reader and user fully subscribe. For as different as we all may seem, when intricacies are compared.
Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. The cosmic race california state university, sacramento. Eugenics in mexico eugenics was a scientific and social movement worldwide based on hereditarianism that involved a. In it, vasconcelos foresaw his fifth race arising from superior mexican racial elementsafter having. 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. 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.
Vasconceloss philosophy of the cosmic race affected all aspects of mexican sociocultural, political, and economic policies. Didier tisdel jaen in this influential 1925 essay, presented here in spanish and english, jose vasconcelos predicted the coming of a new age, the aesthetic era, in which joy, love, fantasy, and creativity, would. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. It is a dense piece of rhetoric filled with internal contradictions and ambivalent motives. Vasconcelos vaxconcelos to say that the people of the iberian regions of the americas that is to say, the parts of the continent colonised by portugal and spain have the territorial, racial, and spiritual factors necessary to initiate the universal era of. Aug 03, 20 vasconceloss philosophy of the cosmic race affected all aspects of mexican sociocultural, political, and economic policies. Essay promotes ideology of a future fifth race in the americas.