Over a career spanning nearly forty years, Toscano worked towards the conscious effort of preserving and emphasizing traditional Mexican culture to the rest of the world.
He is also known for opening Mexico's first public cinema, which began exhibiting the work of Georges Méliès and Edwin Stanton Porter to Mexican audiences for the first time.
[3] With María del Carmen Millán, Toscano founded the literary journal Rueca,[1][3] to generate more exposure for feminist Mexican authors.
[1][4] The fictional narrative, with voice-over by actor Manuel Bernal, revolves around the last fifteen-year reign of dictator Porfirio Díaz, the subsequent Mexican Revolution, and life in post-revolutionary Mexico.
[3] Toscano was married to Manuel Moreno Sánchez, a lawyer, judge, professor, and politician with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who later ran as an opposition candidate in the 1982 presidential election.
[1] Sánchez established the Carmen Toscano Foundation in her honor as a means of further documenting and archiving natural footage of Mexico in an effort to preserve the culture.