NO101 Lecture Notes - Columbus Day, Octavio Paz, A Place Called Chiapas
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The cosmic race- questions of identity in mexico. Influential mexican intellectual who spent his childhood on the us-mexican border: he grew up suspicious of americans and critical of their pragmatism, arrogance and aggressivity, saw mestizaje in positive terms. Our civilization may be the chosen one to assimilate and transform mankind into a new type": the latin peoples are the one called upon to consummate this mission (gather all the treasures of. History in order to give expression to universal desire) The mixture of races has taken place ": vasconcelos is putting a positive spin on the reality of mexican history. La raza translates into english most closely as the people, or, according to some scholars, the. Latino people of the new world. : some people have mistranslated la raza to mean the race, implying that it is a term meant to exclude others.
