Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez: 1893-1923 » (1st Edition)

David Dorado Romo, like the people he writes about in Ringside Seat to a Revolution, is a fronterizo. He grew up knowing both sides of the Rio Grande as his home. As a cultural activist in the 1990s, he felt the shadows of the Revolution in the streets and barrios of El Paso and Juárez, the cities where he grew up. He began a passionate four-year search through the archives of Mexico and the U.S. looking for the history that casts those shadows. The stories he tells reveal an intellectual renaissance born of conflict, a revelation of the fronterizo spirit that is so essential in understanding the U.S.-Mexico Border region.

Romo, the son of Mexican immigrants, is an essayist, historian, translator, and musician. He has studied at the Centro d Attivitá Musicale in Florence, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and received a degree in Judaic Studies from Stanford University.

Visionary essays and images from the crucible of the Mexican Revolution.