3215 - Mixed Relationships, Mixed Methods

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

Interracial intimacy has long been a multivalent symbol of racial progress in the U.S. as well as a multivalent indicator of racial/ethnic relations in sociology. In recent years, research has developed in methodologically distinct directions into (1) a quantitative literature that studies interracial intimacy as an indicator of complex social distances and (2) a qualitative literature that studies it as a case of boundary work inclusive and exclusive, both potentially racist. This panel will bridge this divide by pairing emerging work in each literature with methodological responses from researchers in the other literature. We will begin with the quantitative research presentation & qualitative comment, followed by the qualitative research presentation & quantitative comment, and close with an integrative comment to start the Q&A. The work and perspectives shared in this session will stimulate thinking on how to better understand race/ethnicity by leveraging the methodological pluralism that is a hallmark of our discipline.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Jiannbin Lee Shiao, University of Oregon

Presider

• Jiannbin Lee Shiao, University of Oregon

Individual Presentations

• The Salience of Race for Hispanics: Insights from their Marital Sorting Behavior - Kate Hee Choi, University of Western Ontario

• Interrogating Intimacy: Inequality, Personal Past, and Cultural Change - Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, University of Oregon

Discussants

• Amy C. Steinbugler, Dickinson College

• Jenifer L. Bratter, Rice University

• Jiannbin Lee Shiao, University of Oregon