La Raza

Mexican American) and Mexican descent and the Hispanic world, as well by mestizos who share Native American or national Hispanic heritage.
The term originated in the 1925 book La Raza Cósmica written by Mexican writer José Vasconcelos. He described La Raza Cosmica as the product of gradual racial mixing that was already underway in the Hispanic world.Vasconcelos believed that eventually all of the people within the Spanish Empire would be completely mixed into a new race.
Hispanic people all around the U.S. Nonetheless, the term and idea associated with it have been mainly adopted by some Mexican people in the United States to express pride in their nation.