{"id":3945,"date":"2019-07-11T15:20:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T15:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.utexas.edu\/black-male-education-research\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2019-07-11T15:20:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T15:20:06","slug":"boobie-miles-failure-and-friday-night-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/boobie-miles-failure-and-friday-night-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Boobie Miles: Failure and Friday Night Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheppard, S. N. (2019). Boobie Miles: Failure and Friday Night Lights. <i>Journal of Sport and Social Issues<\/i>, <i>43<\/i>(4), 319\u2013340. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0193723519840501\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0193723519840501<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This essay examines the sporting failures and racial iconicity of James \u201cBoobie\u201d Miles, whose athletic performance of defeat on the gridiron is chronicled in H. G. Bissinger\u2019s bestselling nonfiction book <i>Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, A Dream<\/i> (1990), Peter Berg\u2019s film adaptation <i>Friday Night Lights<\/i> (2004), and Big K.R.I.T.\u2019s songs and music videos \u201cHometown Hero\u201d from his album <i>K.R.I.T. Wuz Here<\/i> (2010) and \u201cBoobie Miles\u201d from his album <i>4eva N a Day<\/i> (2012). Examining how the film displaces defeat, locating its effects and affects in the injured running back, I unpack the ways (Black) popular culture reclaims Boobie\u2019s embodied failures on screen as a site of rhetorical agency and oppositional theorizing.<\/p>\n<p>Access to full article:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/0193723519840501#articleCitationDownloadContainer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheppard, S. N. (2019). Boobie Miles: Failure and Friday Night Lights. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 43(4), 319\u2013340. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0193723519840501 This essay examines the sporting failures and racial iconicity of James \u201cBoobie\u201d Miles, whose athletic performance of defeat on the gridiron is chronicled in H. G. Bissinger\u2019s bestselling nonfiction book&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/boobie-miles-failure-and-friday-night-lights\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"underline\">read more<\/span>&nbsp;<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sportsathletics-sa","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}