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The cosmic race : a bilingual edition / José Vasconcelos ; translated and annotated by Didier T. Jaén ; afterword by Joseba Gabilondo

By:

Vasconcelos, José, (, 1881-1959)

Contributor(s):

Jaen, Didier T

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Race in the AmericasPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1997.Edition: Johns Hopkins paperbacks edDescription: xxxiii, 126 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780801856556

Uniform titles:

Raza cósmica . English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS 305.8 VAS

LOC classification:

BD512 .V3713 1997

Summary: 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 305.8 VAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		018843

Originally published: The cosmic race ; La raza cósmica. Los Angeles : Centro de Publicaciones, California State University, 1979.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-126).

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.

English and Spanish.

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