Burn It All Down

Black History Month: Interview with THE Amira Rose Davis from Ep 20


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This week, to send off Black History Month in style, we are re-releasing an interview each day highlighting a Black person we’ve had on Burn It All Down in the past whose words and actions still resonate with us all.
Waaaaaaay back in Sept 2017, before she became a permanent fixture on BIAD, Dr. Amira Rose Davis, Professor of History and African American Studies at Penn State, was interviewed by Brenda and Shireen. This interview was during an episode focused on the intense sexist and racist response to Jemele Hill calling Trump a white supremacist, including Trump calling for ESPN to fire Hill. They talk about black women in sports media, the old boys club of sports journalism and sporting spaces, and the history of African-American sporting press.
Dr. Davis: "And I think that that’s compounded by the fact that she is a black woman because then you get exactly this misogynoir read onto that where it’s not just that they’re saying, “Get out of the kitchen. Get off the SportsCenter and go back to the kitchen.” But they’re also saying, “Go back to Africa.”"
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