Americo Paredes (1915-1999) is the author of numerous works, including With a Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero (University of Texas Press, 1970), the novel George Washington Gomez (Arte Publico Press, 1990), and a collection of poetry, Between Two Worlds (Arte Publico Press, 1990).

The Folklore of Groups of Mexican Origin in the United
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Popular
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Folk Medicine and the Intercultural Jest 1968
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A Folklorists
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Some Aspects of Folk Poetry 1964
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Its Rise and Fall 1958
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The Concept of the Emotional Core Applied to the Mexican
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Jose Mosqueda and the Folklorization of Actual Events 1973
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The United States Mexico and Machismo 1971
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Folksong as
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Vintage Paredes—at once erudite and clear, scholarly and accessible. . . . It could serve the general reader as an interesting, accessible introduction to this unique Texas scholar who, in Bauman’s words, ‘has produced the most important and influential scholarship of our generation on the folklore of Greater Mexico in general and the Lower Border in particular.’ . . . The newly published collection of essays reflects the range and diversity of his work: ribald jokes and ethnic slurs, the rise and fall of the corrido, machismo in the United States and Mexico, how anthropologists and other scholars are led astray by their informants, the clash of cultures in the Rio Grande Valley today. (Texas Observer)