Revolution of 1910 and the ezln uprising of 1994 forced jose vasconcelos. Clearly, vasconcelos must have felt the nazi defeat required the revision in order to cover his tracks. Jose vasconcelos 18821959 the cosmic race 1925 greece laid the foundations of western or european civilization. He envisioned a future where race and nationality would be transcended in the name of.
What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page information wikidata item. Jose vasconcelos was born in oaxaca, mexico in 1882, to parents of european ancestry. Jose vasconcelos jose vasconcelos 18821959, a mexican philosopher, sociologist, essayist, educator, and historian, is best known for his fourvolume autobiography. 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. Jose vasconcelos 18821959 por raul trejo villalobos. Joses mother, who was a pious catholic, died when jose was sixteen. Jose vasconcelos 18821959 was among the most important and influential mexican intellectuals of the twentieth century. But unlike the mainstream historians of mexico vasconcelos at least places.
Jose vasconcelos 18821959 had campaigned for francisco madero, the demo. During his formative years, vasconcelos developed a profound suspicion of americans, whom he viewed. Chapter 1 jose vasconcelos aboutface on the cosmic race. This mixture of races provides hyprid progency, a mutable, more malleable species with a rich gene pool. The family moved to the border town of piedras negras, coahuila, where he grew up attending school in eagle pass, texas. Essay promotes ideology of a future fifth race in the americas. Jun 10, 2019 the cosmic race by jose vasconcelos, 1997, johns hopkins university press edition, in english johns hopkins paperbacks ed. Vasconceloss philosophy of the cosmic race affected all aspects of mexican sociocultural, political, and economic policies. Jose vasconcelos was born in oaxaca, oaxaca on february 28, 1882, the son of a customs official. It is a dense piece of rhetoric filled with internal contradictions and ambivalent motives. Jose vasconcelos was born in the southern mexican state of oaxaca in. Just as science fiction is otrwise known as speculative literature, one might consider the cosmic race a speculatil ethnography. May 23, 2011 vasconcelos stance about race was complex and often contradictory. The philosopher and educator jose vasconcelos is a central figure in the.
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