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Aug 31, 2021 · Americo Paredes: In His Own Words, an Authorized Biography (Volume 5) (Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series) Paperback – August 31, 2021. by Manuel Medrano (Author)
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Américo Paredes (1915-1999) was a folklorist, scholar, and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who is widely acknowledged as one of the founding scholars of Chicano Studies. Born in Brownsville, Texas, along the southern U.S.-Mexico Border, Paredes’ early experiences impacted his writing during his later years as an academic.
Américo Paredes. 3.80. 337 ratings21 reviews. Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a misunderstanding.
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Américo Paredes (September 3, 1915 – May 5, 1999) was an American author born in Brownsville, Texas who authored several texts focusing on the border life that existed between the United States and Mexico, particularly around the Rio Grande region of South Texas. His family on his father’s side, however, had been in the Americas since 1580.
Américo Paredes has 23 books on Goodreads with 3676 ratings. Américo Paredes’s most popular book is George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexan Novel.
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In the 1930s, Américo Paredes, the renowned folklorist, wrote a novel set to the background of the struggles of Texas Mexicans to preserve their property, culture and identity in the face of Anglo-American migration to and growing dominance over the Rio Grande Valley.
