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José Vasconcelos died on June 30, 1959, in the Tacubaya neighborhood of Mexico City. His body was found reclining on the desk, in which he was working on one of his last literary works: Letanías del atardecer (‘Litanies of the evening’), published posthumously unfinished.
Jun 26, 2024 · Died: June 30, 1959, Mexico City (aged 77) Subjects Of Study: monism. José Vasconcelos (born Feb. 28, 1882, Oaxaca, Mex.—died June 30, 1959, Mexico City) was a Mexican educator, politician, essayist, and philosopher, whose five-volume autobiography, Ulises Criollo (1935; “A Creole Ulysses”), La tormenta (1936; “The Torment”), El ...
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Jun 8, 2018 · He died in Mexico City on June 30, 1959. Further Reading. For information on Vasconcelos in English consult A Mexican Ulysses: An Autobiography, translated and abridged by W. Rex Crawford (1963), and Vasconcelos and Manuel Gamio's Aspects of Mexican Civilization (1926).
La raza cósmica (The Cosmic Race) is a Spanish-language book written and published in 1925 by Mexican philosopher, secretary of education, and 1929 presidential candidate José Vasconcelos to express the ideology of a future "fifth race" in the Americas; an agglomeration of all the races in the world with no respect to color or number to erect ...
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Jos é Vasconcelos, the Mexican politician and philosopher, was born in Oaxaca. Vasconcelos was active in the Mexican revolution, directed the reform of Mexican education as secretary of education in the early 1920s, ran unsuccessfully for the presidency in 1929, and subsequently was exiled for a time.
José Vasconcelos Calderón (28 February 1882 – 30 June 1959), called the "cultural caudillo " of the Mexican Revolution, was an important Mexican writer, philosopher, and politician. He is one of the most influential and controversial personalities in the development of modern Mexico.
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Jul 18, 2020 · José Vasconcelos, Mexican educator, politician, essayist, and philosopher, whose five-volume autobiography is one of the finest sociocultural studies of 20th-century Mexico. A lawyer, Vasconcelos campaigned for the revolutionary presidential candidates Madero and Villa.
