{"id":3947,"date":"2019-07-11T15:21:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.utexas.edu\/black-male-education-research\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2019-07-11T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T15:21:43","slug":"with-the-249th-pick-michael-sam-and-imagining-failure-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/with-the-249th-pick-michael-sam-and-imagining-failure-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"With the 249th Pick . . .: Michael Sam and Imagining Failure Otherwise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brody, E. (2019). With the 249th Pick . . .: Michael Sam and Imagining Failure Otherwise. <i>Journal of Sport and Social Issues<\/i>, <i>43<\/i>(4), 296\u2013318. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0193723519840504\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0193723519840504<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article examines the sporting discourses that surrounded Michael Sam\u2019s attempt to play in the National Football League (NFL). It argues that Sam would inevitably be described as a failure because of his inability to exist within the logics of heteronormativity and situates his experience within the framework of neoliberalism and Whiteness to better understand how both function as mediating factors in his ability to attain success. Rather than dismissing Sam\u2019s story as abject failure, this article instead reevaluates his journey within the lens of queerness. It discusses how we might look to queerness as a mode of being, which allows a refocusing of the story from Sam\u2019s individual failure to the institutions which fail to include queer bodies in their vision of success.<\/p>\n<p>Access to full article:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/0193723519840504#articleCitationDownloadContainer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brody, E. (2019). With the 249th Pick . . .: Michael Sam and Imagining Failure Otherwise. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 43(4), 296\u2013318. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0193723519840504 This article examines the sporting discourses that surrounded Michael Sam\u2019s attempt to play in the National Football League (NFL). It argues that Sam would inevitably&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/with-the-249th-pick-michael-sam-and-imagining-failure-otherwise\/\" 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-3947","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\/3947","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=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}