Jose vasconcelos was born in the southern mexican state of oaxaca in. Active in mexican politics, he was exiled during the eras of porfirio diaz and carranza, served as rector of the national university and as minister of education, and later ran unsuccessfully for president. The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors. 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 was among the most important and influential mexican intellectuals of the twentieth century. While vasconceloss theory turned the white supremacist racism of the day on its head, it remains at heart a racist theory. Joses mother, who was a pious catholic, died when jose was sixteen. By imputing inevitable characteristics to the various races of the earth, vasconcelos engages in rather reckless stereotyping.
Jose vasconcelos was born in oaxaca, oaxaca on february 28, 1882, the son of a customs official. Having fulfilled their destiny of mechanizing the world, they themselves have set, without knowing it, the basis for the new period. During his formative years, vasconcelos developed a profound suspicion of americans, whom he viewed as crassly. The period of the fusion and the mixing of all peoples. Jun 10, 2019 the cosmic race by jose vasconcelos, 1997, johns hopkins university press edition, in english johns hopkins paperbacks ed. The cosmic race california state university, sacramento. Mexican border, where he attended schools in eagle pass, texas. Descargue como pdf, txt o lea en linea desde scribd. Vasconcelos believed, would be the race of the future. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. It is a dense piece of rhetoric filled with internal contradictions and ambivalent motives. Barbara celarent american journal of sociology, vol.