Author: Manuel F. Medrano
MANUEL F. MEDRANO is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Brownsville and the coauthor of Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands and Charro Days in Brownsville. He has also authored three bilingual poetry books about the South Texas Border and has produced and directed a series of oral history profiles about Rio Grande Valley people entitled Los del Valle. He is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award, the University of Texas Board of Regents’s Outstanding Teaching Award, and the Houston Endowment for Civic Engagement.
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Works Published by UNT Press
Américo Paredes: In His Own Words, an Authorized Biography
— Vol. 5: of Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series
Published: April, 2010 Pages: 224 Features: 25 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index.
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. He grew up between two worlds—one written about in books, the other sung about in ballads and narrated in folktales. He attended a school system that emphasized conformity and Anglo values in a town whose population was 70 percent Mexican in origin. more... about Américo Paredes: In His Own Words, an Authorized Biography