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David Dorado Romo

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.

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Originally aired on September 15, 2024

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Tim Z. Hernandez is a poet, novelist and performance artist. He is the recipient of an American Book Award for poetry, the Zora Neal Hurston Award, the Premio Aztlan Prize for fiction, a Colorado Book Award for poetry, and the International Latino Book Award for historical fiction.
Will Rose is a longtime technology and marketing executive based out of NYC and Texas. He is the co-founder of Words on a Wire’s publishing imprint, eRadical Books, and now spearheads marketing strategy for the Words on a Wire podcast. He also serves as Chief Technology Officer at the EdTech startup, Student Select, and as Head of Data Science at the artificial intelligence company, Harqen AI.
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