The cosmic redemption of the “mestizo”: semantic inversion of the concept of race in José Vasconcelos’ Cosmic race
Assuming that at the beginning of 20th century there has been a change in the way of conceiving miscegenation in Mexico, this article intends to investigate how this change was related to the concept of race. I analyze the essay La raza cósmica (1925), by José Vasconcelos, who...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) |
| Repositorio: | Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/9183 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.fgv.br/reh/article/view/9183 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | cosmic race miscegenation Mexico Latin America José Vasconcelos raça cósmica mestiçagem México América Latina José Vasconcelos. |
| Sumario: | Assuming that at the beginning of 20th century there has been a change in the way of conceiving miscegenation in Mexico, this article intends to investigate how this change was related to the concept of race. I analyze the essay La raza cósmica (1925), by José Vasconcelos, who sustained that in Latin America a new race would be formed, in a spiritual miscegenation. Through a semantic inversion of the concept of race, the author presents a new proposal of Latin-American identity, with the political purpose of legitimating the nations of the continent and confronting U.S. imperialism. |
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