Americo Paredes: In His Own Words, an Authorized Biography (Volume 5) (Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series) - Softcover

Medrano, Manuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574418475 ISBN 13: 9781574418477

Publisher: University of North Texas Press, 2021

Synopsis

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.  He was a brilliant teacher and prolific writer who championed the preservation of border culture and history. With the publication of “With His Pistol in His Hand”: A Border Ballad and Its Hero in 1958, Paredes soon emerged as a challenger to the status quo. He was a co-founder in 1970 of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and is credited with introducing the concept of Greater Mexico. Paredes became a scholar of scholars, guiding many students to become academic leaders.

“Medrano’s biography offers an inspiring and necessary must-read for anyone claiming to have more than just a passing interest in studying the history and cultures of the American Southwest where Mexican Americans have a continuing and growing, important presence.”—Texas Books in Review

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About the Author

MANUEL F. MEDRANO is professor emeritus of history at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the coauthor of Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands and Charro Days in Brownsville.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574418475
• ISBN 13: 9781574418477
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224