Racializing Media Policy

Jason A. Smith is an Affiliate Faculty with the Center for Social Science Research at George Mason University, USA, and member of the Justice 21 Committee with the Society for the Study of Social Problems.Richard T. Craig is an Associate Professor of Communication at George Mason University, USA. His research centers on mass media political economy; addressing the production, distribution and consumption of media content.

• Chapter 1. Merging the Subfields of Racialization and Media Policy; Jason A. Smith and Richard T. CraigChapter 2. The Problems of US Broadcasting Policy: Race, Rights, and Regulation; Allison Perlman Chapter 3. Racialization Without Integration: The Fight for NBC Diversity in the 1940s and 1950s; Leah P. Hunter Chapter 4. Mediating the Crisis: Collective Narrative Self-Determination and Structural Challenges to Media Policy in Philadelphia; Malav Kanuga

Racializing Media Policy [...] is a robust and deeply reported historical account of race in media policy [...] its accessible writing and thorough case studies make it valuable for journalists, policymakers, and media professionals striving to understand the systemic barriers that shape racial representation in broadcast media. For researchers interested in media policy, this book provides a strong historical and theoretical framework to examine broadcast regulation as a racialized system.