Vasconcelos, José  (, 1881-1959) <br/><br/>
The cosmic race  : a bilingual edition 
/ José Vasconcelos ; translated and annotated by Didier T. Jaén ; afterword by Joseba Gabilondo 
 - Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed. 
 - Baltimore, Md.  : Johns Hopkins University Press  , 1997. 
 - xxxiii, 126 p.  ; 21 cm. 
 - Race in the Americas .
<br/><br/> Originally published: The cosmic race ; La raza cósmica. Los Angeles : Centro de Publicaciones, California State University, 1979. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-126). 
<br/><br/> In this influential 1925 essay, presented here in Spanish and English, Jose Vasconcelos predicted the coming of a new age, the Aesthetic Era, in which joy, love, fantasy, and creativity, would prevail over the rationalism he saw as dominating the present age. In this new age, marriages would no longer be dictated by necessity or convenience, but by love and beauty; ethnic obstacles, already in the process of being broken down, especially in Latin America, would disappear altogether, giving birth 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>English and Spanish. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801856556 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97002484 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cosmology<br/>Evolution<br/>Race relations<br/>Philosophical anthropology
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BD512  / .V3713 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>LAS 305.8 VAS