Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tun kafin ya sadu da Fania, Roeder ya nuna sha'awar abubuwan hagu. Kamar yadda sabon digiri na kwalejin koleji Roeder ya yi tafiya zuwa Mexico a lokacin juyin juya hali
wanda ya fara a 1910. Ya kasance tare da Pancho Villa a matsayin mai sa kai, kuma a wani lokaci an kama shi "da 'yan adawa da juyin juya hali na Mexico kuma an tsaya shi a bango don a harbe shi. Don wasu dalilai ba a ba da umarnin yin wuta ba kuma ya tsira. " A cikin shekarun 1930 Roeder yayi bincike kuma ya rubuta littattafai uku kan tarihin Italiya, amma a ƙarshen 1940s ya sake juya sha'awarsa zuwa Mexico. A lokacin shekarun 1950 tare da McCarthyism a kan karuwa a gida, Roeders ya koma Mexico City. A nan "Ralph ya ci gaba da aikin da ya soma a New York don Kwamitin Marubuta da ke Fursuna"