the late Frank Paredes
Making of Mexican American middle-class identity is lecture topic
(June 7, 2002)--"Hispanic Self-Fashioning: The Making of a Mexican American Middle-Class Identity" will be the topic of the second annual Frank C. Paredes Lecture, to be held at 1:30 p.m. June 15 at the University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown Campus Buena Vista Street Building Lecture Hall 1.328.
Anthropologist, award-winning author and UT-Austin faculty member Jose E. Limon will present the lecture, held in memory of prominent San Antonio psychologist Frank Paredes, a founding member of the San Antonio Society for Psychoanalytic Studies and former president of the Bexar County Psychological Association whose work led to an expanded understanding of how culture shapes an individual's sense of personal identity.
Paredes, who died in 2000, also chaired the Texas Psychological Association's division for the study of ethnic diversity and founded the Center for Mexican American Studies at UT-Austin, where he mentored Limon, then a doctoral student in cultural anthropology. Limon now directs the center, which he helped Paredes to establish.
Limon's books include "Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry," which received an honorable mention the University of Chicago Folklore Prize. His second book, "Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican American South Texas," was named as the winner of the1996 American Ethnological Society Senior Scholar Prize. A third text, "American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture," was published in 1998. He has also edited the writings of Texas historian and folklorist Jovita Gonzalez.
Limon's current project is a comparative study of Anglo and Mexican American literature in Texas, to be called "Neither Friends, Nor Strangers: Mexicans and Anglos in the Literary Making of Texas."
Twice nominated for major undergraduate teaching excellence awards, Limon has directed 21 doctoral students in completion of their programs in English, anthropology and comparative literature. He is also affiliated with National Faculty, a group working with public school teachers in economically impacted areas of the country, and has served as a speaker for community groups under the sponsorship of the Texas Commission for the Humanities.
In 1999, Texas Monthly selected Limon as one of the 20 most influential Texans and in 2000, was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.
Co-sponsored by the San Antonio Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, Bexar County Psychoanalytical Association and UTSA Counseling Services, the Paredes lecture is free and open to the public.
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