Americo Paredes
Author
1915 – 1999
Who was Americo Paredes?
Américo Paredes was a Mexican-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. His ancestors were sefarditas, or Spanish Jews who had been converted to Christianity, and in 1749 - along with Escandon - they settled in the lower Rio Grande. The year of Paredes’ birth was the year of the last Texas Mexican Uprising, which was to portend the life Paredes was to lead. Throughout his long career as a journalist, folklorist and professor, Paredes was to bring focus to his Mexican American heritage, and the beauty of those traditions.
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- Born
- Sep 3, 1915
Brownsville - Also known as
- Américo Paredes
- Américo Paredes
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Texas at Austin
- Died
- May 5, 1999
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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