La Raza Cósmica
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- See La Raza for other uses of the phrase.
The phrase "La raza cósmica", in English "the cosmic race", embodies the notion that traditional, exclusive concepts of race and nationality can be transcended in the name of humanity's common destiny. It originally referred to a movement by Mexican intellectuals during the 1920s who pointed out that Latin Americans have the blood of all the world's races (white, Amerindian, and black), transcending the peoples of the "old world". The phrase was coined by the Mexican philosopher and Secretary of Education José Vasconcelos.
It has come, often in its shortened version "La Raza" to refer to the mixed race people of Latin America. Vasconcelos also used the expression "la raza de bronce", ("the bronze race"), in this same sense.
