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This essay travels ground covered by other black American writers in many formats, but the gut-punch that Cottom provides makes it an essay that should be very widely read. In “Dying to be Competent” Cottom describes the terrifying story of her child’s premature birth and the repeated dismissal of her clear and competent requests for help, which were denied by the medical establishment. Despite her education, privledge and wealth, she was, like black women in many situations, presumed incompetent, on every matter. This collection of essays by Sociology Professor Tressie McMillan Cottom discuss her experiences as a black American woman with the rawness and vunerability of her first person stories strongly backed by her academic and intellectual training. Rather than broad-sweeping topics, Cottom focuses in on very specific experiences and extrapolates how the nuances of her experiences has wide-ranging implications.
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