AHC: Make "The Cosmic Race" a Popular Idea in the Americas

[CthulhuFhtagn]

A Mexican philosopher wrote a paper around the turn of the century which talked about a "fifth race" in the Americas created from all others, which took in the best qualities of the rest. He called it "The Cosmic Race". We see this idea surviving in some form today among Mexicans and chicanos with "La Raza", which emphasizes mestizo and mulato pride. The challenge is to have this idea, or something like it, spread across the Americas, and maybe even lead to a sort of "American* Supremacist" movement. Bonus points if you get it to spread to the white countries like Argentina and the US.

*In the continental sense

 

[Deleted member 67076]

I could see this happening in a world where much of the big Meztico or Mulatto states in Latin America are far more populated and powerful.

For instance, if say, Gran Colombia, Peru-Bolivia (probably called the Andes Republic here) and Mexico all become regional powers with large educated classes that begin to include the indigenous/lower-class peoples a movement to bind Iberian (along with any immigrants that come in, although most likely they'll just assimilate into the Iberian dominated upper classes) and Indigenous cultures might have an aspect of supremacism of being mixed.

Such an idea would quickly spread to the Spanish Caribbean, or at least the Dominican Republic, given Mulatto Pride was a government position since the 1840s.

 

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Depends on when this La Raza movement takes off. It was certainly present in the late 19th/early 20th c. Mexico, which didn't stop its adherents from expelling the Chinese or being racist towards Eastern European immigrants.

So when it becomes the official dominant thought would probably determine what it looks like and who is included in it.

 

[St. Just]

The problems with the Cosmic Race idea being promulgated as official are thus:

1) Indigenous nationalism has accessible national myths and culture to draw upon, and Indian-leaning mestizos will probably go for that esp. if it integrates left-wing worker's agitation.

2) The separation and self-regard of the white immigrant classes/criollo upper class. Race-ideas tend to be right-wing, which would prove a problem when having to combine the landowning class with their indio serfs.


I think the place where this has actually happened is Brasil. Brasil, thanks to its history (a shitload of slaves, the whole Nheengatu thing, etc) adopted Gilberto Freyre's Lusotropicalism to varying degrees, what one writer called "white Negritude". African and indigenous elements were adopted as miscegenation became a symbol of national pride.

Paraguay could also work, given Francia's forced miscegenation, and probably in Gran Colombia as well. Mexico and Peru, I think, would tend towards more indigenist identities given their inheritance of the great megalithic states of the Americas -- but Mexico might be diverse enough both within and outside of the indigenous communities that it could work there as well.

Argentina is too white, and so are Uruguay and Chile, IMO.

America, absolutely not. Miscegenation was banned, too many whites, too many whites who hate blacks, and nowhere near as many indigenous peoples.