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Américo Paredes describes a slightly different tradition of aguinaldos that he learned in song form from his mother in South Texas.
It was in his book, With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero, that Paredes proposed his theory of the development of Chicano folklore through a process of cultural conflict generated by the invasion of Anglo culture and values into south Texas in the 1800s.
He is in the company of the historical mestizo character of Yo soy Joaquín, the revolutionary figure of Joaquín Murrieta, the mythical pachuco, the stately learned persona of Dr. Paredes, the gentle leadership of César Chávez; the bracero is the universally exploited farmworker, the campesino of the world.
Besides his scholarly writings, Paredes was a poet and novelist.
Américo Paredes’s life work was an attempt to understand lo Mexicano of the Chicano experience through folklore, in the text of narratives and in the context of folk performances.