Analysis Of Jose Vasconcelos's La Raza Cosmica

Jose Vasconcelos’s “La Raza Cosmica” is definitely not what I expected, it required me multiple reads to understand José Vasconcelos point of view. The essays turns out to be pretty racist, as his theories are buried under explanations and reasoning hard to comprehend. In my opinion Jose Vasconcelo gets too caught up in metaphors that detract from his true meaning and theories. “La Raza Cosmica” reads more like a science fiction than a call to unity or nationalism. If Jose Vasconcelo had published this book as a work of fiction with the current title, I believe he would have accomplished both his goal of writing the book and explaining his theories to the general public as George Orwell had done with the novella “Animal Farm”. Jose Vasconcelos

The mixed civilization that would ultimately present itself to the forefront is known as the fifth universal race, which is an Aztec belief of a “fifth race” or the “Fifth Sun” which would bring a renewal of civilization to earth. According to Vasconcelos, white Europeans invaded after becoming industrial, organized, and considering themselves rulers, but no different than previous civilization that would ultimately would wither away. He further explains that the temporary rule of the white Europeans would serve only as a bridge or as a catalyst where all human ethnicities and cultures in Latin America would be fused together. Because of the bloody history, this fusion or bridge made it difficult for the Latin American Indian to accept their lineage as they refused to accept the reality that they were created by the Spaniards but ultimately would have to accept their past and look to the future or perish. Vasconcelos believes the Europeans and Northern Americans would also have to accept the same faith as the Indians because sooner or later they would have to mix with other races to progress and protect themselves from other sub races as their numbers would eventually