La Raza Cósmica (nonfiction)
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La Raza Cósmica (The Cosmic Race) is an essay by José Vasconcelos, first published in 1925, expressing the ideology of a future "fifth race" in the Americas; an agglomeration of all the races in the world with no respect to color or number to erect a new civilization: Universópolis. Armies of people would go forth around the world professing their knowledge.
Vasconcelos continues to say that the people of the Iberian regions of the Americas (that is to say, the parts of the continent colonized by Portugal and Spain) have the territorial, racial, and spiritual factors necessary to initiate the "universal era of humanity".
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- La Raza Cósmica @ Wikipedia
- José Vasconcelos @ Wikipedia - José Vasconcelos Calderón (28 February 1882 – 30 June 1959) was an important Mexican writer, philosopher and politician. He has been called the "cultural caudillo" of the Mexican Revolution.