Having fulfilled their destiny of mechanizing the world, they themselves have set, without knowing it, the basis for the new period. Vasconceloss philosophy of the cosmic race affected all aspects of mexican sociocultural, political, and economic policies. Mexican border, where he attended schools in eagle pass, texas. 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 period of the fusion and the mixing of all peoples. During his formative years, vasconcelos developed a profound suspicion of americans, whom he viewed.
The cosmic race california state university, sacramento. The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors. Chapter 1 jose vasconcelos aboutface on the cosmic race. The philosopher and educator jose vasconcelos is a central figure. Jose vasconcelos jose vasconcelos 18821959 was among the most important and influential mexican intellectuals of the twentieth century. Just as science fiction is otrwise known as speculative literature, one might consider the cosmic race a speculatil ethnography. Shama e shab e stan e raza, shama shabestanraza, conciencia cosmica pdf, terapia cosmica. This article needs additional citations for verification. If it available for your country it will shown as book reader and user fully subscribe. Essay promotes ideology of a future fifth race in the americas.
In mexico, a confluence of armed revolts succeeded in toppling the prolonged auto cratic presidency of porfirio diaz. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. Comparte este libro en facebook, twitter y tus otras redes sociales y descarga mas libros vip gratis. Learn how and when to remove these template messages. Shama e shab e stan e raza, shama shabestanraza, terapia cosmica. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. It is a dense piece of rhetoric filled with internal contradictions and ambivalent motives. For it is pervaded by a sensual aesthetic of individual life that is vasconcelossmoststriking contribution to social thought. 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.
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