Video of Américo Paredes Family Reunion and Águila Azteca Award Reception
Title:
Video of Américo Paredes Family Reunion and Águila Azteca Award Reception
Description:
The raw footage begins at Américo Paredes' family reunion. Dr. Paredes is sitting at a table with a group of men and there is a group of women in the kitchen. The second segment of the video (starting at 4:38) covers the ceremony when Dr. Paredes received the Águila Azteca Award. There are introductory speeches by Teresa Franco, Ricardo Romo, Standish Meacham, and Josefina Vázquez, honoring Dr. Paredes' work in the liberal arts, folklore, and Mexican American studies. The video ends during Dr. Vázquez's speech.
Creator/Contributor:
Medrano, Manuel, 1949- (collector), Paredes, Américo, 1915-1999 (honoree), Franco González Salas, María Teresa (speaker), Romo, Ricardo (speaker), Meacham, Standish (speaker), and Vázquez Zoraida, Josefina (speaker)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1995-06-22
Owning Repository:
Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at Austin
Mexican Americans, Texas--Social conditions, University of Texas at Austin. Center for Mexican American Studies, Mexicano americanos, Texas--Condiciones sociales, and Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca
Place Name:
Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, United States of America and Texas, United States of America
General Note:
Assigned production number 554. Duration of content within the file is 36 minutes, 36 seconds. All intellectual property rights are retained by the legal copyright holders. The University of Texas at Austin does not hold the copyright to the content of this file. Formal permission to reuse or republish this content must be obtained from the copyright holder. Material copyrighted to Dr. Manuel F. Medrano and The University of Texas at Brownsville. The assets of UT Brownsville are now held by The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV).
Origin Note:
Los del Valle oral history recordings transferred from The University of Texas at Brownsville to The University of Texas at Austin in 2015. Digitized with funds from the Latin American Materials Project (LAMP), Center for Research Libraries.