The Cosmic Race / La raza cosmica (Race in the Americas)

You other reviewers must have overlooked some parts. On the first page it says:"The mission of the Ibero American Race"The book is talking about existing Latinos, there is no plan to absorb other races in his "cosmic race", the plan is to exclude them and let them die off. Ibero-America includes all Spanish-speaking countries in North, Central, and South America, plus the Portuguese-speaking country of Brazil.Here are some quotes from the book;"it is not fair that people like the Chinese, who under the guidance of Confucian morality multiply like mice, should come to degrade the human condition""we belong to tomorrow, while the Anglo-Saxons are gradually becoming more a part of yesterday""There also appears the Mongol, with the mystery of his slanted eyes that see everything according to a strange angle""the mysterious eugenics of aesthetic taste will prevail. The very ugly will not procreate, they will have no desire to procreate""At present, we see with profound horror the marriage of a black woman and a white man.""Recessive offspring would voluntarily extinguish all desire of physical reproduction""Inferior races would become less prolific, and the better specimens would go on ascending a scale of ethnic improvement.""the youths descendant from Scandinavians, Dutch, and English found in North American universities, are much slower and almost dull, compared with the mestizo youth from the south.""Only the Iberian part of the continent possesses the spiritual factors, the race, and the territory necessary of the great enterprise of initiating the new universal era of humanity""the four fundamental races accomplish their mission and then, disappear in order to create a fifth superior ethnic specimen""we in Ibero America shall arrive before any other part of the world, at the creation of a new race fashioned out of the treasures of all the previous one: the final race, the cosmic race"

Stars because this is not a complete work as it does not contain the travel notes! Of course one of the supplementers at page 109 refers to these travel notes in making a point and even quotes them, but then says on page 110 they are not included in the present edition because they are not important!Otherwise a good read to see what has been appropriated and co-opted by those that use it to engage in identity (color of my skin) politics.

Vasconcelos gives to the reader a side of history that is not generally taught in our modern school systems. It is a must reading for any Latino student who wants to know more about Latino history than is taught in school.

The Cosmic Race is a historic text that should be in the personal library of undergraduate and graduate students of Latin America. This edition by John Hopkins University press presents the complete essay in original Spanish and in English. The English translation is fairly good. I strongly recommended it.

Got it as a gift and they really didn't like it. :(

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