David Dorado Romo

Author, historian

Host Tim Z. Hernandez speaks with David Dorado Romo, a writer, translator, musician, and historian from El Paso. 

David Dorado Romo is a fronterizo, a person who is from these southwest borderlands, and steeped in the fronterizo spirit that strongly defines the attitudes of the U.S. Mexico border region. His writing and research has been so critical to the borderlands, starting with his previous book, Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground cultural History of El Paso and Juarez, which was called “people’s history at its best” by Howard Zinn. His latest book, “Borderlands: The Mexican-American Story” is out now with Penguin.