Americo Paredes Summary

In Medranos biography on Americo Paredes he argues the three world’s that Paredes lived in during his years on the border, his years of World War 2 in the Far East, and his scholar years at UT Austin. He uses events that happened in Paredes life from a small child all through his professional career as a professor in several universities across the country. He inspired many to do what he did and gave hope to all the Latinos/Latinas in this country. Medrano uses evidence in his book by beginning with Paredes life as a small child living in the border between Brownsville, TX and Matamoros, Mexico. Paredes was a very intellectual young man who loved his community and his people of Brownsville and Matamoros, he loved to tell stories of the life on the Mexican border. His life on the border is what inspired him to write his poems and books to tell the folktales he heard and the pride he had towards his people. He was motivated to keep going and getting

Although they would later appreciate him for pushing them to their best of their abilities. Another main idea Medrano points out is that Paredes never stopped going back to his roots his folktales of the border life were always thought and he would always write about them as a professor. Paredes continued to preserve the border life through his stories about the Texas Rangers and of all the Matanzas. In Conclusion Medrano’s biography on Paredes showed his three worlds of the border life, the Far East, and his final years as a professor at UT Austin. Medranos book helps identify the hidden history of the border through Paredes’s life and how important his writings were too many Latinos and the Chicano