Vasconcelos and the possibilities of a cosmic race of Latin American man

Abstract

José Vasconcelos Calderón (1882-1959) was a Mexican thinker with enormous influence in various fields of philosophy. His work The Cosmic Race. The Mission of the Ibero-American Race (1925) represents a description of the evolution of the mestizaje that characterizes the Ibero-American man and an attempt to justify the mixture of races as a fundamental determinant of a new one, capable of assuming the challenges posed by the evolution of humanity to overcome the social and cultural limitations of its multiplicity of ascendants.