A review by podanotherjessi
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock

emotional informative slow-paced

There are a lot of really interesting moments in this memoir, but the whole package rarely landed for me. There were a lot of moments when Blackstock jumps from something she experienced to a wider cultural issue without the facts to make the former clear to the reader. She seems to take for granted that the reader will already agree with her, and while I do, I was hoping for more evidence of the trends she's discussing.
The book shines the most when Blackstock is talking about her own life and her family. The anecdotes about her patients and stories about her mother are the strengths here. I would have loved more focus on that supplemented with statistics and studies.