Jose Vasconcelos Calderon, called the "cultural " of the Mexican Revolution, was an important Mexican writer, philosopher, and politician.
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28 Facts About Jose Vasconcelos
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Jose Vasconcelos is one of the most influential and controversial personalities in the development of modern Mexico.
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Jose Vasconcelos became bilingual in English and Spanish, which opened doors to the English-speaking world.
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Jose Vasconcelos had a long-term relationship with Elena Arizmendi Mejia and throughout his life many other shorter liaisons, including one with Berta Singerman.
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Jose Vasconcelos attended the National Preparatory School, an elite high school in Mexico City, and he went on to Escuela de Jurisprudencia in Mexico City.
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Jose Vasconcelos returned to Mexico City to participate more directly in the anti-re-election movement, became one of the party's secretaries, and edited its newspaper, El Antireelectionista.
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Jose Vasconcelos changed the academic programs and broke with the past positivistic influence.
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Soon, Jose Vasconcelos was forced into exile in Paris, where he met Julio Torri, Doctor Atl, Gabriele D'Annunzio, and other contemporary intellectuals and artists.
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Jose Vasconcelos chose the side of the Convention and served as Minister of Education during the brief presidential period of Eulalio Gutierrez.
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Jose Vasconcelos returned to Mexico during the interim presidency of Sonoran Adolfo de la Huerta and was named rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico As rector, he had a great deal of power, but he accrued even more by ignoring the standard structures, such as the University Council, to govern the institution.
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Jose Vasconcelos redesigned the logo of the university to show a map of Latin America, with the phrase "Por mi raza hablara el espiritu", an influence of Rodo's arielismo.
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Jose Vasconcelos traveled throughout Mexico while he was rector of the university to seek that support.
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Jose Vasconcelos's effort succeeded, and Vasconcelos was named head of the new cabinet-level secretariat in July 1921.
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Jose Vasconcelos printed huge numbers of texts for the expanded public school system, but in the 1920s, there was no agreement about how the Mexican Revolution should be portrayed and so earlier history texts by Justo Sierra, the head of the ministry of public education during the Diaz regime, continued to be used.
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Jose Vasconcelos resigned in 1924 because of his opposition to President Plutarco Elias Calles.
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Jose Vasconcelos worked for the education of the masses and sought to make the nation's education on secular, civic, and Pan-American lines.
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Jose Vasconcelos ran for the presidency in 1929 but lost to Pascual Ortiz Rubio in a controversial election, and again left the country.
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Jose Vasconcelos later directed the National Library of Mexico and presided over the Mexican Institute of Hispanic Culture.
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Jose Vasconcelos died on June 30,1959 in the Tacubaya neighborhood of Mexico City.
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Jose Vasconcelos's body was found reclining on the desk, in which he was working on one of his last literary works: Letanias del atardecer, published posthumously unfinished.
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Later, Jose Vasconcelos developed an argument for the mixing of races, as a natural and desirable direction for humankind.
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Jose Vasconcelos is often referred to as the father of the philosophy.
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Jose Vasconcelos influenced the point of view of Carlos Pellicer with respect to several aesthetic assumptions reflected in his books.
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Together, Pellicer and Jose Vasconcelos made a trip through the Middle East and were looking for the "spiritual basis" of Byzantine architecture.
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Paz wrote that Jose Vasconcelos was "the teacher" who had educated hundreds of young Latin American intellectuals during his many trips to Central and South America.
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Jose Vasconcelos was a guest lecturer at Columbia University and Princeton University, but his influence on new generations in the United States gradually decreased.
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Jose Vasconcelos caused the National Symphonic Orchestra and the Symphonic Orchestra of Mexico to be officially endorsed.
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Jose Vasconcelos was a prolific author, writing in a variety of genres, especially philosophy, but autobiography.
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