"Valuable, well-presented study examines background, rites and ceremonies, and social organization of Orisha religion, 'arguably the most purely African cultural practice left on the island.' However,
Xuxa (SHOO-sha), a former Playboy model and soft-porn movie actress, is Brazil's mass media megastar whose children's television show reaches millions of people in Latin America and the United States.
Sixteen original essays document the extent and variety of citizen resistance and struggle in the Appalachian region since 1960. The contributors-all organizers or activist intellectuals-describe how
