{"id":5106,"date":"2010-02-08T00:56:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T00:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5106"},"modified":"2012-03-14T00:51:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T00:51:41","slug":"the-cosmic-race-by-jose-vasconcelos-la-raza-cosmica-and-issues-of-racial-diversity-and-purity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5106","title":{"rendered":"The Cosmic Race by Jos\u00e9 Vasconcelos: &#8220;La Raza C\u00f3smica&#8221; and Issues of Racial Diversity and Purity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/philosophybooks.suite101.com\/article.cfm\/the-cosmic-race-by--jose-vasconcelos\" target=\"_blank\">The Cosmic Race by Jos\u00e9 Vasconcelos: &#8220;La Raza C\u00f3smica&#8221; and Issues of Racial Diversity and Purity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>suite101.com<br \/>\n2010-01-26<\/p>\n<p><strong>Melanie Zoltan<\/strong>, Adjunct Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Bay Path College<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_Raza_C%C3%B3smica\" target=\"_blank\">The Cosmic Race<\/a>&#8221; (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_Raza_C%C3%B3smica\" target=\"_blank\">La Raza C\u00f3smica<\/a>&#8221; in Spanish), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jos%C3%A9_Vasconcelos\" target=\"_blank\">Jos\u00e9 Vasconcelos<\/a> argues that racial diversity and interbreeding will produce one superior race. Is it code for purity?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While <em>The Cosmic Race<\/em> (<em>La Raza C\u00f3smica<\/em>) sounds like the name of a new video game from Nintendo starring Mario and Luigi, this essay (in book form) written by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_America\" target=\"_blank\">Latin American<\/a> philosopher Jos\u00e9 Vasconcelos in 1925 presents arguments on racial diversity and interbreeding that set the intellectual world ablaze when it was published and that continue to be debated by scholars<strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/philosophybooks.suite101.com\/article.cfm\/the-cosmic-race-by--jose-vasconcelos\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cosmic Race by Jos\u00e9 Vasconcelos: &#8220;La Raza C\u00f3smica&#8221; and Issues of Racial Diversity and Purity suite101.com 2010-01-26 Melanie Zoltan, Adjunct Professor of History Bay Path College In &#8220;The Cosmic Race&#8221; (&#8220;La Raza C\u00f3smica&#8221; in Spanish), Jos\u00e9 Vasconcelos argues that racial diversity and interbreeding will produce one superior race. Is it code for purity? While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,5,21,103,6,394],"tags":[1868,2070,2071,20753,2069],"class_list":["post-5106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-latincarib","category-mexico","category-new-media","category-socialscience","tag-jose-vasconcelos","tag-la-raza-cosmica","tag-melanie-zoltan","tag-mexico","tag-the-cosmic-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}