David Dorado Romo is a writer, translator, musician, and historian. He’s also a “fronterizo,” someone who grew up and lived on the border between the United States and Mexico.

Romo’s Borderlands and the Mexican American Story tells the “true story of America” from the Mexican American perspective – including teen activists, muralists, and revolutionaries. He’ll discuss how culture and practices shaped the Southwestern part of the U.S. despite attempts of erasure by white colonizers and settlers.

Although the book was written with young readers in mind, Romo’s presentation is for people of all ages who wish to better understand the history of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Borderlands is part of the Race to the Truth series which tells American history from the perspectives of different communities. Other works in the series include Colonization and the Wampanoag Story, Slavery and the African American Story, and Exclusion and the Chinese American Story.

Romo is also the author of Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez, 1893-2923, called a “vital historical work for the Southwest.”