Masood Reviews New Book on Race and Public Radio

Syeda Quratulain Masood, assistant professor of sociology and social justice studies, published a book review in Sociological Forum examining Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry by Laura Garbes (Princeton University Press, 2025). The review engages Garbes's account of how U.S. public radio became a white institutional space and argues for shifting the analytic frame from the nation-state to the empire-state — drawing on scholarship on Du Bois, racialization, and the global structure of the color line. The review will interest readers working on race, media and organizations.