The cosmic race
Subtitle: a bilingual edition
By: José Vasconcelos ; translated and annotated by Didier T. Jaén ; afterword by Joseba Gabilondo.
Contributors: Jaén, Didier Tisdel.
Edition: Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
Series: Race in the Americas
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Cosmology.; Evolution.; Race relations.; Philosophical anthropology.
Description: 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.
Notes: English and Spanish.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-126).
Originally published: The cosmic race ; La raza cósmica. Los Angeles : Centro de Publicaciones, California State University, 1979.