{"id":5108,"date":"2010-02-08T01:12:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T01:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2010-02-08T01:16:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T01:16:43","slug":"the-cosmic-race-la-raza-cosmica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5108","title":{"rendered":"The Cosmic Race \/ La Raza C\u00f3smica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu\/ecom\/MasterServlet\/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9780801856556&amp;qty=1&amp;source=2&amp;viewMode=3&amp;loggedIN=false&amp;JavaScript=y\" target=\"_blank\">The Cosmic Race \/ La Raza C\u00f3smica<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Johns Hopkins University Press<\/a><br \/>\n1997 (originally published in 1925)<br \/>\n160 pages<br \/>\nPaperback: 9780801856556<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jos%C3%A9_Vasconcelos\" target=\"_blank\">Jos\u00e9 Vasconcelos<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\ntranslated, with an introduction, by <strong>Didier T. Ja\u00e9n<\/strong><br \/>\nafterword by <strong>Joseba Gabilondo<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors. Having fulfilled their destiny of mechanizing the world, they themselves have set, without knowing it, the basis for the new period: The period of the fusion and the mixing of all peoples.&#8221; &#8212; from <em>The Cosmic Race<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this influential 1925 essay, presented here in Spanish and English, Jos\u00e9 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 &#8220;cosmic race,&#8221; in which all the better qualities of each race would persist by the natural selection of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cosmic Race \/ La Raza C\u00f3smica Johns Hopkins University Press 1997 (originally published in 1925) 160 pages Paperback: 9780801856556 Jos\u00e9 Vasconcelos translated, with an introduction, by Didier T. Ja\u00e9n afterword by Joseba Gabilondo &#8220;The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors. Having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,21,125,8,17,394],"tags":[2072,570,1868,2073],"class_list":["post-5108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-latincarib","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","tag-didier-t-jaen","tag-johns-hopkins-university-press","tag-jose-vasconcelos","tag-joseba-gabilondo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108","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=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}