S6 Ep. 21: Kingdom Quarterback: Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd on Race, Kansas City Football, and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes - a podcast by fiction/non/fiction
from 2023-02-23T11:00
Following a gutsy, thrilling 2023 Super Bowl win by the Kansas City Chiefs, sportswriters Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd join co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss their forthcoming book Kingdom Quarterback: Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs, and How a Once Swingin' Cow Town Chased the Ultimate Comeback. Dent and Dodd map out the relationship between race and football in Kansas City from the Chiefs’ move to the city in the early 1960s to the activism and engagement of players like Mahomes in the Black Lives Matter era.
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Selected Readings:Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd
Kingdom Quarterback: Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs, and How a Once Swingin' Cow Town Chased the Ultimate ComebackOpinion: “The Chiefs proudly broke racial barriers. Kansas City erected them.” by Mark Dent
“How Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes authored his greatest comeback in Super Bowl LVII,” by Rustin DoddOthers:
America's Game: The Epic Story Of How Pro Football Captured A Nation by Michael MacCambridgeKansas City (as 'K.C. Loving') written by Leiber and Stoller, recorded by Little Willie Littlefield (1953)
The history behind J.C. Nichols’ development, restrictive covenants in Kansas CityThe King of Kings County by Whitney Terrell
Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development by Kevin Fox GothamLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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