Tag: José Vasconcelos

  • Re-articulating the New Mestiza Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol 12, #2 (March 2011) Special Issue: Winning and Short-listed Entries from the 2009 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Annual Student Essay Competition pages 61-74 Zalfa Feghali University of Nottingham This essay provides an overview, critique, and the beginning of a refiguration of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theorization…

  • “Assimilating the Primitive”: Parallel Dialogues on Racial Miscegenation in Revolutionary Mexico Peter Lang Publishing Group 2004 179 pages, 4 tables Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8204-6322-3 Kelley R. Swarthout, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Colgate University, New York This book examines the Mexican nationalist rhetoric that promoted race mixing as a cultural ideal, placing it within its broader…

  • The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cósmica Johns Hopkins University Press 1997 (originally published in 1925) 160 pages Paperback: 9780801856556 José Vasconcelos translated, with an introduction, by Didier T. Jaén afterword by Joseba Gabilondo “The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors. Having…

  • The Cosmic Race by José Vasconcelos: “La Raza Cósmica” and Issues of Racial Diversity and Purity suite101.com 2010-01-26 Melanie Zoltan, Adjunct Professor of History Bay Path College In “The Cosmic Race” (“La Raza Cósmica” in Spanish), José Vasconcelos argues that racial diversity and interbreeding will produce one superior race. Is it code for purity? While…

  • Images of Latin American mestizaje and the politics of comparison Bulletin of Latin American Research Volume 23, Number 3 (2004) pp. 355–366 DOI: 10.1111/j.0261-3050.2004.00113.x Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester In a presidential address to the Organization of American Historians, Gary Nash (1995) reveals ‘the hidden history of mestizo America’ (by which…