It is a pleasure and a motivation, for my as student, to read the work of a person to whom i can relate, I mean Americo Paredes was a Mexican American author born in Brownsville, Texas who experience the double life of American and Mexican culture and all the challenges a Mexican American faces. Regardless of this, he became a renown writer, folklorist and professor. As the same as Pat Mora who is a Mexican American too. I consider that both authors can write better than anyone, how is to live in the border, like they did in their poems “The Mexico-Texan” by Americo Paredes and “Legal Alien” Pat Mora. They highlight the tension, the struggles and cultural diversity that Mexican Americans live through in of the southwestern United States and
