Bronze race

Bronze race

Bronze race ( _es. raza de bronce) is a term used by early 20th century Latin American writers of the "indigenista" and "americanista" schools to refer to the mestizo population that arose in America with the arrival of European (particularly Spanish) colonisers and their intermingling with the New World's indigenous Native American peoples.

Mexican poet Amado Nervo wrote "La Raza de Bronce" (The bronze race) as en elegiac poem in honor of former president Benito Juarez in 1902. Bolivian "indigenista" writer Alcides Arguedas used the term in his 1919 work, "La Raza de Bronce," a study of the indigenes of the Andean altiplano. It was later used by Mexican luminary José Vasconcelos in "La Raza Cósmica" (1925).

The term was revived in the 1960s by Chicano ethnic group MEChA to refer to Latinos in the United States and the people in Mexico as a unified "race", similar to the black and white races. In this sense it is largely synonymous to the notion of the Chicano nation. The decision to call it a separate "race" may have been influenced by the contemporary negative views of "ethnic" or "nation" based nationalism and positive views of "race" based nationalism. The notion was first enunciated in the Plan Espiritual de Aztlan document.

ee also

*Brown people
*Cosmic race


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