Borderlands and the Mexican American Story

Mexican American history is often told as a story of immigration, but people of Mexican and Indigenous descent lived across what is now the American Southwest long before any border was drawn. David Dorado Romo traces that longer history from Indigenous roots through the Spanish missions, the Alamo and the Mexican Revolution to the Chicano Movement and present-day debates over immigration, questioning familiar versions of events along the way. Profiles of figures such as writer Gloria Anzaldúa and muralist Judith Baca sit beside the stories of ordinary people and student activists, and every chapter closes with questions for discussion. Part of the Race to the Truth series for young readers, the book was a 2025 Orbis Pictus honor book.