Latinos A Biography of the People Author:Earl Shorris They are sometimes called the people who died twice, once at the hands of the Spaniards and their brutal process of civilization, then at the hands of Anglos, practicing a subtler exploitation. They are Latinos, the fastest-growing minority in the United States. Earl Shorris's deeply moving narrativeenlivened by biographical sketches of Me... more »xican Americans, Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans, and many others struggling with the burden of a rich and terrible historyilluminates every aspect of the Latino experience in America, from language to education to social and political organization.« less