20世纪20年代是墨西哥革命之后国家重建的重要时期，作为公共教育部部长的何塞·巴斯孔塞洛斯借助优生学理论批判了种族退化论和实证主义，提出了“宇宙种族”的思想。他认为，世界种族的加速融合将为一种新类型种族的出现铺平道路，这个新种族即“未来的宇宙种族”，它将通过爱的自然选择把每一个种族的所有更好的品质保留下来。拉丁美洲的本质是种族和文化的混血，这种混血的趋势是优化，梅斯提索种族是通往“宇宙种族”的桥梁。他的这种对种族混血的积极评价，为墨西哥人乃至拉丁美洲人找回了民族自信心和自豪感，成为文化民族主义的基石。同时，他还积极倡导教育改革运动以及音乐和艺术等方面的文艺复兴运动。他试图通过普及大众教育、传播爱国主义、促进社会平等，通过他的美学、政治和教育理想，引领墨西哥重新建成一个清白的和理想的国家。他的努力在塑造墨西哥“新人”、创造新的民族认同和国家身份方面发挥了重要作用。
The 1920s was an important period of national reconstruction after the Mexican Revolution.As the Minister of Public Education，Jose Vasconcelos criticized the thoughts of racial degradation and positivism with the help of eugenics theory，and proposed the concept of “cosmic race”.He believes that the accelerating race integration will pave the way for the emergence of a new race.This new race is the “future cosmic race”，which will retain all the good qualities of each race through natural selection of love.The essence of Latin America is a hybridization of races and cultures and the trend of this hybridization is optimization.The Mestizos race is the bridge to the “cosmic race”.His positive evaluation of hybrid race has restored Mexican and even Latin American national self-confidence and prides，and has become the cornerstone of cultural nationalism.He also actively advocated the education reform movement，and the Renaissance movement in music and art.With his aesthetic，political and educational ideals，he tried to lead Mexico to rebuild an innocent and ideal society through promoting popular education，patriotism，and social equality.His efforts played an important role in shaping Mexico's “new people” and creating a new national identity.
