LEADER 03413nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910824151903321 005 20240516114949.0 010 $a1-283-86457-6 010 $a0-8135-5104-8 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813551043 035 $a(CKB)2550000000083919 035 $a(EBL)849488 035 $a(OCoLC)775302258 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606466 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11357173 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606466 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10581558 035 $a(PQKB)10179905 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC849488 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8115 035 $a(DE-B1597)529239 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813551043 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL849488 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10534355 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL417707 035 $a(PPN)185973841 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000083919 100 $a20100927d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJose? Vasconcelos$b[electronic resource] $ethe prophet of race /$fIlan Stavans 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (142 p.) 300 $aIncludes an English translation of Vasconcelos' "Mestizaje" from his The cosmic race and his lecture "The race problem in Latin America", one of three Harris Foundation lectures originally delivered at the University of Chicago in 1926. 311 $a0-8135-5063-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tThe Prophet of Race -- $tMestizaje -- $tThe Race Problem in Latin America -- $tChronology -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aMexican educator and thinker Jose Vasconcelos is to Latinos what W.E.B. Du Bois is to African Americans--a controversial scholar who fostered an alternative view of the future. In Josè Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race, his influential 1925 essay, "Mestizaje" key to understanding the role he played in the shaping of multiethnic America--is for the first time showcased and properly analyzed. Freshly translated here by John H. R. Polt, "Mestizaje" suggested that the Brown Race from Latin America was called to dominate the world, a thesis embraced by activists and scholars north and south of the Rio Grande. Ilan Stavans insightfully and comprehensively examines the essay in biographical and historical context, and considers how many in the United States, especially Chicanos during the civil rights era, used it as a platform for their political agenda. The volume also includes Vasconcelos's long-forgotten 1926 Harris Foundation Lecture at the University of Chicago, "The Race Problem in Latin America," where he cautioned the United States that rejecting mestizaje in our own midst will ultimately bankrupt the nation. 606 $aMestizos 606 $aMestizaje 606 $aCosmology 607 $aLatin America$xRace relations 615 0$aMestizos. 615 0$aMestizaje. 615 0$aCosmology. 676 $a305.80098 700 $aStavans$b Ilan$0553432 701 2$aVasconcelos$b Jose?$f1881-1959.$01628429 701 2$aVasconcelos$b Jose?$f1881-1959.$01628429 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824151903321 996 $aJose? Vasconcelos$93965563 997 $aUNINA