S6 Ep. 21: Kingdom Quarterback: Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd on Race, Kansas City Football, and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes

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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This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf.

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 Comeback
• Opinion: “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 Dodd

Others:

• America's Game: The Epic Story Of How Pro Football Captured A Nation  by Michael MacCambridge
• Kansas 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 City
• The King of Kings County by Whitney Terrell
• Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development by Kevin Fox Gotham

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