{{short description|Racial classification}} {{More citations needed|date=September 2020}} '''Bronze race''' ({{Langx|es|raza de bronce}}) is a term used since the early 20th century by [[Hispanic America]]n writers of the ''[[indigenismo|indigenista]]'' and ''[[americanismo|americanista]]'' schools to refer to the [[mestizo]] population that arose in the [[Americas]] with the arrival of [[Romance-speaking Europe|Latin European]] (particularly [[Spanish people|Spanish]]) settlers and their intermingling with the [[New World]]'s [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Amerindian]] peoples.

[[Mexico|Mexican]] poet [[Amado Nervo]] wrote "La Raza de Bronce" ("The [[Bronze (color)|Bronze]] Race") as an [[Elegiac|elegiac poem]] in honor of former president [[Benito Juárez]] in 1902. [[Bolivia]]n ''indigenista'' writer [[Alcides Arguedas]] used the term in his 1919 work, ''La Raza de Bronce'',<ref>{{Cite book|last=Arguedas|first=Alcides|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fw91kqETl4EC&q=%22raza+de+bronce%22|title=Raza de bronce|date=2006|publisher=Fundacion Biblioteca Ayacuch|isbn=978-980-276-428-0|language=es}}</ref> a study of the natives of the [[Altiplano|Andean Altiplano]]. It was later used by Mexican luminary [[José Vasconcelos]] in ''La Raza Cósmica'' (1925).

The term was revived in the 1960s by [[Chicano]] ethnic group [[MEChA]] to refer to [[Mexican Americans]] in the [[United States]] and the people in 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 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 Aztlán]] document.

==See also== * [[Brown (racial classification)]] * [[La raza cósmica]] * [[Melting pot]] (as metaphor for cultural fusion)

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