Sociology and Anthropology
College of Humanities and Social Sciences

The interdisciplinary Youth Research Council works with Mason’s Early Identification Program to invite students to investigate social issues of their choosing, using the tools of community-based research.

Scholars in the Sociology of Race have extensively researched public policy sectors such as housing, taxation, and immigration. However, media policy research has often failed to effectively engage with the critical concept of racialization, driven instead by political and economic perspectives. Racializing Media Policy fills this gap in the sociological, communications, and media studies literatures with its focus on the racialized processes that construct media policy work in the United States.