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This illuminating book offers an extensive, expert analysis of a school system that bears the legacy, hallmarks, and consequences that lie at the intersection of race and education. Urban education scholar Camika Royal deftly analyzes decades of efforts aimed at improving school performance within the School District of Philadelphia (SDP), in a brisk survey spanning every SDP superintendency from the 1960s through 2017.

El Todo es lo contrario de la Nada. La Nada es un lugar aterrador. Un lugar sin sentido, sin conexión con el verdadero ser humano, sin vida auténtica, sin amor real. Un lugar del que sólo es posible huir. El Todo es un lugar donde todas las cosas tienen consistencia, un espacio de paz y armonía donde no existe el miedo, porque todo es parte de uno y del mismo Todo. El Todo es la existencia común a todos nosotros, es nuestra voz interior, es lo escrito entre líneas.

Celebrities are photographed nursing in public, yet breastfeeding mothers are asked to cover up in malls and on airplanes. Breastfeeding is a private act, yet everyone has an opinion about it. How did feeding our babies get so complicated? Journalist and infant health advocate Kimberly Seals Allers breaks breastfeeding out of the realm of "personal choice" and shows our broader connection to an industrialized food system that begins at birth, the fallout of feminist ideals, and the federal policies that are far from family friendly.

Dismissed not only explains what so many people feel so profoundly—that the system is working against them. It also reveals what health-care practitioners, patients, and society in general can do to make it right.