Interview: Dr. Nefertiti Walker & Dr. Scott Brooks on Black Women Coaches in College Basketball

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Amira Rose Davis is joined by Dr. Nefertiti Walker, Associate Professor of Sports Management, Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer at UMass Amherst, and Dr. Scott Brooks, Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Global Sports Institute at Arizona State University, for a discussion on Black women coaches in women's college basketball. They discuss how race and gender impacts who gets coaching positions, how they get them and the ways white supremacy influences positions of power in women's college basketball. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And I'll suck you up and I spit you out and I'll play with your babies to the screaming shout.
0:08.4	Oh, yeah.
0:09.2	Hey, flame throwers.
0:10.2	Welcome to Burn it All Down.
0:11.9	Amir here.
0:12.7	And I am so excited to be joined in a roundtable conversation with two of the illest minds in the game.
0:20.6	And I'm talking, of course, about Dr. Scott Brooks and Dr.
0:24.2	Nefertida Walker, Dr. Scott Brooks, Associate Professor of Sociology and the Associate
0:29.2	Director of Research for the Global Sports Institute at Arizona State University.
0:33.5	He's the author of the book Black Man Can't Shoot.
0:36.2	We also are joined today by Dr. Nefertiti Walker, who's Associate Professor of Sports Management
0:40.9	and the interim vice chancellor for diversity, equity, and inclusion, and chief diversity
0:46.3	officer at UMass Amherst.
0:48.4	You know, basketball season is upon us somehow, because it's December somehow.
0:54.3	I'm not sure about either of those things, but it's happening.
0:59.3	Me and Lindsay broke down a women's basketball preview just a few weeks ago,
1:04.0	but I wanted to follow that up with a conversation with these two scholars
1:07.7	to break down some data of a new report, a new field study coming out of
1:12.5	the Global Sports Institute at Arizona State where Scott works. And I also wanted to call up
1:18.4	Nav and get her insights on breaking down and disaggregating some of this data. And so that's what
1:23.3	we're here to do. We're here to like really talk numbers and the stories behind those numbers.
1:28.3	And so welcome to burn it all down, both of y'all. Happy you're here. Yeah, happy to be here.
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