El compromiso social y el futuro de Aztlan: El mestizaje en 'La raza Cosmica' (1925) de Jose Vasconcelos Y la novela 'Crisol' (1984) de Justo S. Alarcon

Addressing the pending problem of understanding and interpreting the baroque discourse and multiple symbols in the third part, Realizacion , of the trilogy Crisol (1984) by Justo S. Alarcon, this study compares the vision of mestizaje, or miscegenation, in the said trilogy part and La Raza Cosmica (1925) by Jose Vasconcelos. To do this, we examine existing research on the two authors and we particularized the conception of mestizo, taking into account its expression in Mexico and the United States (U.S.). To analyze the text by Alarcon, our critical framework is based on fables and their didactic function as represented by the parables in the Bible and their moral functions as personified in the fables by Aesop and other writers. Although both authors predict the birth of a new race, we found that Vasconcelos, in a Utopian way, claims it would rise in Mexico. This new race, according to Vasconcelos, will be the product of hybridization between four races: white, yellow, red or Native American, and black. Justo S. Alarcon, on the other hand, suggests in Realizacion that such hybridization will take place in the United States, specifically the Southwest. Using analogies, allegories, and parables, the narrator presents several Aesopian characters that engage in massive and repeated migrations that ultimately produce a new crisol or melting pot. Such new hybridization takes place in the U.S. This study draws attention to the origin of the Chicano and the issue of identity. Future work could focus on both issues.