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Along with Molina Enriquez, anthropologist Manuel Gamio and intellectual José Vasconcelos were the thinkers most responsible for transforming the mestizo into the icon of the nation.

José Vasconcelos envisioned a far superior spiritual eugenics “of aesthetic taste,” la raza cósmica. This new cosmic race would be synthesized from extant racial groups, combining the best aspects of each.

In his writings of 1925, Vasconcelos explained that through a process of “constructive miscegenation,” the ugly Mendelian recessives—what he called the “lower types of species”—would be “absorbed by the superior type.”

The Negro race and other undesirable mixes (including Afro-Chinese) would vanish on their own in order to make room for the beautiful races. In the 1940s Vasconcelos’ obsession with perfect hybridity and dreams of a super race led him to support the project of Nazism.