Paredes, Américo, 1915-1999

found: His George Washington Gómez, 1990:CIP t.p. (Américo Paredes) data sheet (b. 1915)

found: Américo Paredes, 2010:ECIP data view (Paredes lived from 1915-1999; English and Anthropology professor at University of Texas Austin for most of his career, retired in 1984)

found: New York Times online obituary, viewed March 9, 2012:(Americo Paredes; born in 1915 in Brownsville, TX, died in Austin, TX May 5, 1999, writer, folklorist, and one of the founders of the Chicano studies movement in the 1960s)

found: Meier, Matt S. Mexican American biographies, 1988:pages 171-172 (Américo Paredes, born September 3, 1915. Served in the U.S. Army. Earned BA (1951) in one year, MA and PhD from University of Texas at Austin in 1956. Taught full time there while studying and continued teaching there. With Professor George I. Sánchez, founded and was first director of the University of Texas Mexican American Studies program.)