The philosopher and educator jose vasconcelos is a central figure in the. Chapter 1 jose vasconcelos aboutface on the cosmic race. Jose vasconcelos 18821959 por raul trejo villalobos. He envisioned a future where race and nationality would be transcended in the name of. Jose vasconcelos 18821959 had campaigned for francisco madero, the demo. He is one of the most influential and controversial personalities in the development of modern mexico. Having fulfilled their destiny of mechanizing the world, they themselves have set, without knowing it, the basis for the new period. Mexican border, where he attended schools in eagle pass, texas. Jose vasconcelos starb im jahr 1959 in mexikostadt. Bridging the writings of gloria anzaldua and jose vasconcelos.
The family moved to the border town of piedras negras, coahuila, where he grew up attending school in eagle pass, texas. Although he spent a good part of his life in either voluntary or compulsory exile, the impact of his original personality goes beyond his own lifetime, while his. 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. The period of the fusion and the mixing of all peoples. Revolution of 1910 and the ezln uprising of 1994 forced jose vasconcelos. He was an important mexican writer, philosopher and politician. 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. Barbara celarent american journal of sociology, vol. The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors.
Apr 25, 2014 the cosmic race mexican philosopher jose vasconcelos believed a new race would be born. Jose vasconcelos jose vasconcelos 18821959 was among the most important and influential mexican intellectuals of the twentieth century. During his formative years, vasconcelos developed a profound suspicion of americans, whom he viewed. Jose vasconcelos was born in oaxaca, oaxaca on february 28, 1882, the son of a customs official.
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