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Citation (2023), "Prelims", Smith, J.A. and Craig, R.T. (Ed.) Racializing Media Policy, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. i-x. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80455-736-520231006 Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited Copyright © 2023 Jason A. Smith and Richard T. Craig Half Title Page Racializing Media Policy Title Page Racializing Media Policy Edited by Jason A. Smith George Mason University, USA And Richard T. Craig George Mason University, USA United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China Copyright Page Emerald Publishing Limited Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK First edition 2023 Editorial matter and selection © 2023 Jason A. Smith and Richard T. Craig. Individual chapters © 2023 The Authors. Published under exclusive license by Emerald Publishing Limited. 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Merging the Subfields of Racialization and Media Policy 1 Jason A. Smith and Richard T. Craig 2. The Problems of US Broadcasting Policy: Race, Rights, and Regulation 17 Allison Perlman 3. Racialization Without Integration: The Fight for NBC Diversity in the 1940s and 1950s 47 Leah P. Hunter 4. Mediating the Crisis: Collective Narrative Self-determination and Structural Challenges to Media Policy in Philadelphia 75 Malav Kanuga Index 103 About the Editors Jason A. Smith, PhD, is an Affiliate Faculty with the Center for Social Science Research at George Mason University and Member of the Justice 21 Committee with the Society for the Study of Social Problems. His research focuses on race and media exclusion. Previous research has been published in Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Studies in Media & Communication, The International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, and the Journal of Black Studies. He previously edited the volume Race and Contention in Twenty-First Century U.S. Media, along with issues of Information, Communication & Society and the International Journal of Communication. Richard T. Craig, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Communication at George Mason University. His research centers on mass media political economy; addressing the production, distribution, and consumption of media content. He takes particular interest in exploring the social structure/struggle embedded in media production and interpreted in media consumption. His goal is to use research to influence the development of policy to enhance opportunities for media production and distribution by marginalized cultures. About the Contributors Richard T. Craig, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Communication at George Mason University. His research centers on mass media political economy; addressing the production, distribution, and consumption of media content. He takes particular interest in exploring the social structure/struggle embedded in media production and interpreted in media consumption. His goal is to use research to influence the development of policy to enhance opportunities for media production and distribution by marginalized cultures. Leah P. Hunter is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism & Graphic Communication at Florida A&M University. She earned her PhD in Media Communication Studies from Florida State University, MS in Broadcasting & Film from Boston University, and Bachelor’s degree in Black Studies with a Psychology minor from Oberlin College. Before entering academia, she worked in the television and film industries. Notable companies she worked for include Whitney Houston’s BrownHouse Productions, Spike Lee’s 40 Acres & a Mule Filmworks, MTV Films and CBS Network. She has authored and co-authored a number of publications on media diversity and policy, assessment, and student achievement. She has published chapters on Tyler Perry’s manipulation of his core audience in The Problematic Tyler Perry, the viability of Bounce TV in Race and Contention in 21st Century US Media, and sister circles in social media in Black Sisterhoods. Her interests include media diversity, political economy of media, and media law and assessment. Malav Kanuga is a Research Fellow at the Media, Inequality and Change Center at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University. He is a Cultural Anthropologist trained in ethnographic and archival studies of space, culture, and power, as well as uneven development in an internationalist and historical framework. As an Urban Researcher and an Activist, his work on the cultures and histories of popular mobilization and imagination attends to the articulations and resistances to domination and hierarchy in the urban and social life worlds of racial capitalism. Allison Perlman is Associate Professor of History and Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the Author of Public Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles Over U.S Television (Rutgers UP, 2016). Jason A. Smith, PhD, is an Affiliate Faculty with the Center for Social Science Research at George Mason University and Member of the Justice 21 Committee with the Society for the Study of Social Problems. His research focuses on race and media exclusion. Previous research has been published in Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Studies in Media & Communication, The International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, and the Journal of Black Studies. He previously edited the volume Race and Contention in Twenty-First Century U.S. Media, along with issues of Information, Communication & Society and the International Journal of Communication. Book Chapters Prelims 1. Merging the Subfields of Racialization and Media Policy 2. The Problems of US Broadcasting Policy: Race, Rights, and Regulation 3. Racialization without Integration: The Fight for NBC Diversity in the 1940s and 1950s 4. Mediating the Crisis: Collective Narrative Self-determination and Structural Challenges to Media Policy in Philadelphia Index