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Bronze race is a term used by early 20th century Latin America
Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....
n writers of the indigenista and americanista schools to refer to the mestizo
Mestizo

Mestizo is a Spanish language term that was used in the Spanish Empire to refer to people of mixed Europe and Indigenous peoples of the Americas ancestry in Latin America....
 population that arose in America with the arrival of Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an (particularly Spanish
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
) colonisers and their intermingling with the New World's indigenous Native American
Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples....
 peoples.

Mexican poet Amado Nervo
Amado Nervo

Amado Nervo was a Mexico poet. His poetry was known for its use of metaphor and reference to mysticism.Nervo was born in Tepic, Nayarit. His father died when he was 13....
 wrote "La Raza de Bronce" (The bronze race) as en elegiac poem in honor of former president Benito Juarez
Benito Juárez

Benito Pablo Ju?rez Garc?a was a Zapotec people Amerindian who served five terms as president of Mexico: 1858?1861 as interim, 1861?1865, 1865?1867, 1867?1871 and 1871?1872....
 in 1902.






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Bronze race is a term used by early 20th century Latin America
Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....
n writers of the indigenista and americanista schools to refer to the mestizo
Mestizo

Mestizo is a Spanish language term that was used in the Spanish Empire to refer to people of mixed Europe and Indigenous peoples of the Americas ancestry in Latin America....
 population that arose in America with the arrival of Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an (particularly Spanish
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
) colonisers and their intermingling with the New World's indigenous Native American
Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples....
 peoples.

Mexican poet Amado Nervo
Amado Nervo

Amado Nervo was a Mexico poet. His poetry was known for its use of metaphor and reference to mysticism.Nervo was born in Tepic, Nayarit. His father died when he was 13....
 wrote "La Raza de Bronce" (The bronze race) as en elegiac poem in honor of former president Benito Juarez
Benito Juárez

Benito Pablo Ju?rez Garc?a was a Zapotec people Amerindian who served five terms as president of Mexico: 1858?1861 as interim, 1861?1865, 1865?1867, 1867?1871 and 1871?1872....
 in 1902. Bolivian
Bolivian

Bolivian may refer to:* Something of, or related to Bolivia* A person from Bolivia, or of Bolivian descent. For information about the Bolivian people, see Demographics of Bolivia and Culture of Bolivia....
 indigenista writer Alcides Arguedas
Alcides Arguedas

Alcides Arguedas was a Bolivian writer and historian.He was born in La Paz, Bolivia, where he studied law and political science. He later studied sociology in Paris and represented his country at several diplomatic missions in both Europe and Americas....
 used the term in his 1919 work, La Raza de Bronce, a study of the indigenes of the Andean altiplano
Andes

The Andes form the world's longest exposed mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. The range is over 7,000 km long, 200-700 km wide , and of an average height of about 4,000 m ....
. It was later used by Mexican
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
 luminary José Vasconcelos
José Vasconcelos

Jos? Vasconcelos Calder?n was a Mexico writer, philosopher and politician of Spanish people, Italian people, and Portuguese people ancestry. He married Serafina Miranda of Tlaxiaco in the Oaxaca in 1906....
 in La Raza Cósmica (1925).

The term was revived in the 1960s by Chicano
Chicano

Chicano is a word for a Mexican American . The terms Chicano and Chicana were originally used by and regarding U.S. citizens of Mexican descent....
 ethnic group MEChA
Mecha

Mecha, also known as meka or mechs, are walking vehicles controlled by a pilot, often appearing in science fiction or other genres involving a fantastic or futuristic element....
 to refer to Latino
Latino

The demonyms Latino and Latina , are defined in English language dictionaries as:* "a person of Latin-American or Spanish-speaking descent."...
s in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and the people in Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of 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
Chicano

Chicano is a word for a Mexican American . The terms Chicano and Chicana were originally used by and regarding U.S. citizens of Mexican descent....
 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
Plan Espiritual de Aztlán

The Plan Espiritual de Aztl?n is a manifesto advocating Chicano nationalism and self-determination for Mexican Americans. It was adopted by the First National Chicano Liberation Youth Conference, a March 1969 convention hosted by Rodolfo Gonzales's Crusade for Justice in Denver, Colorado....
 document.

See also

  • Brown people
    Brown people

    Brown people or brown race is a political, Race , ethnic group, society, and culture classification, similar to black people and white people....
  • Cosmic race
    La Raza Cósmica

    Published in 1925, 'La Raza C?smica' is an essay written by late Mexico philosopher, secretary of education, and 1929 presidential candidate, Jos? 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 a new civilization: Un...