J L Shiao
Biographic Data
| ID | 58708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J L Shiao |
| GIVEN NAMES | J L |
| FAMILY NAME | Shiao |
| SIGNATURE | SHIAO J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9607-1281 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Over-educated or Overly Invested in Education? The Role of Educational Commitment in Asian American Socioeconomic Attainment
Beyond Homophily: The Boundary-Specific Effects of Interracial Contact
Measuring Hispanics/Latinxs: Racial Heterogeneity and Its Consequences for Modeling Social Outcomes in U.S. Population Samples
Quantitative sociologists have recognized the challenges of studying Latinx Americans, given their unique racial heterogeneity and unique measurement in surveys through dedicated Latinx-ethnicity questions. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, the author examines who identifies as Hispanic/Latinx when the option is a permitted response on a combined race/ethnicity question. The study reveals that national origin, c…
Stuck…But In What
The Meaning of 'Racism
This article explores the meanings of racism in the sociology of race/ethnicity and provides a descriptive framework for comparing theories of racism. The authors argue that sociologists use racism to refer to four constructs: (1) individual attitudes, (2) cultural schema, and two constructs associated with structural racism: (3) preexisting consequential inequalities, that is, racial dominance, and (4) processes that create or maintain racial do…
When (In)Consistency Matters: Racial Identification and Specification
Sociologists who rely on survey research have begun exploring the implications of racial inconsistency for not only multiracial identification but also for other social outcomes. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, the author explores the consequences of different specifications of race for modeling three outcomes: educational attainment, self-rated health, and interracial relationship history. The author uses the…
A Comparative Approach to Social Differences
It Starts Early: Toward a Longitudinal Analysis of Interracial Intimacy
Researchers regard interracial intimacy as a mechanism for integration because of the assumption that the partners come from distinct social worlds (e.g., racially homogeneous friendship networks). Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), the author investigates the relationship between interracial friendship and interracial intimacy, specifically the question of how young adults' chances of having an inte…
The Meaning of Honorary Whiteness for Asian Americans: Boundary Expansion or Something Else
Research on interracial intimacy divides between quantitative comparisons of interracial and same-race marriages and qualitative studies of existing interracial unions. This article bridges the divide by examining how interracial dating histories differ from same-race dating histories among Asian Americans, a group that sociologists consistently regard as potentially having attained a racial status as 'honorary whites.' Synthesizing the literatur…
Ethnicity versus Race
Ethnicity versus race is a conceptual distinction between different criteria for classifying humans, the social processes that transform those criteria into social realities, and positions in a debate on the goals of ethnic/racial studies.
Response to HoSang; Fujimura, Bolnick, Rajagopalan, Kaufman, Lewontin, Duster, Ossorio, and Marks; and Morning
Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging (review)
Reviewed by: Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging Jiannbin Lee Shiao (bio) Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging, by Eleana J. Kim. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. Xviii + 321 pp. $23.95 paper. ISBN 978-0-8223-4695-1. Adopted Territory is a multisited ethnography of how a growing number of adult Korean adoptees have come to adopt each other as family and…
The Genomic Challenge to the Social Construction of Race
Recent research on the human genome challenges the basic assumption that human races have no biological basis. In this article, we provide a theoretical synthesis that accepts the existence of genetic clusters consistent with certain racial classifications as well as the validity of the genomic research that has identified the clusters, without diminishing the social character of their context, meaning, production, or consequences. The first part…
Some Asian Men Are Attractive to Me, but for a Husband: Korean Adoptees and the Salience of Race in Romance
Two indicators of race relations in the United States are interracial marriage and transracial adoption. We examine the salience of race in the romantic involvements of Korean adoptees, and we argue that mainstream racial discourses influence romantic preferences across variations in personal experience, local demographics, and social distance. Applying a dating-history approach to a probability sample of semistructured interviews with fifty-eigh…
Korean Adoptees and the Social Context of Ethnic Exploration
In this article, the authors examine ethnic identity development among Korean adoptees and the ways they explore their ethnicity in early adulthood. They argue that social context plays an important role in mediating whether and how adoptees pursue ethnic exploration. Employing a grounded theory analysis of a uniquely representative sample of Korean adoptees, they find that historical period and institutional setting shape the availability, conte…
Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity: Race and Philanthropy in Post–Civil Rights America
"Diversity" has become a mantra in corporate boardrooms, higher education, and government hiring and contracting. In Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity, Jiannbin Lee Shiao explains the leading role that large philanthropies have played in establishing diversity as a goal throughout American society in the post–civil rights era. By creating and institutionalizing diversity policies, these private organizations have quietly transforme…
Shifting the spotlight: Exploring race and culture in Korean-White adoptive families
Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States
Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States
The Genomic Challenge to the Social Construction of Race
Recent research on the human genome challenges the basic assumption that human races have no biological basis. In this article, we provide a theoretical synthesis that accepts the existence of genetic clusters consistent with certain racial classifications as well as the validity of the genomic research that has identified the clusters, without diminishing the social character of their context, meaning, production, or consequences. The first part…
Korean Adoptees and the Social Context of Ethnic Exploration
In this article, the authors examine ethnic identity development among Korean adoptees and the ways they explore their ethnicity in early adulthood. They argue that social context plays an important role in mediating whether and how adoptees pursue ethnic exploration. Employing a grounded theory analysis of a uniquely representative sample of Korean adoptees, they find that historical period and institutional setting shape the availability, conte…
When (In)Consistency Matters: Racial Identification and Specification
Sociologists who rely on survey research have begun exploring the implications of racial inconsistency for not only multiracial identification but also for other social outcomes. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, the author explores the consequences of different specifications of race for modeling three outcomes: educational attainment, self-rated health, and interracial relationship history. The author uses the…
The Meaning of Honorary Whiteness for Asian Americans: Boundary Expansion or Something Else
Research on interracial intimacy divides between quantitative comparisons of interracial and same-race marriages and qualitative studies of existing interracial unions. This article bridges the divide by examining how interracial dating histories differ from same-race dating histories among Asian Americans, a group that sociologists consistently regard as potentially having attained a racial status as 'honorary whites.' Synthesizing the literatur…
Some Asian Men Are Attractive to Me, but for a Husband: Korean Adoptees and the Salience of Race in Romance
Two indicators of race relations in the United States are interracial marriage and transracial adoption. We examine the salience of race in the romantic involvements of Korean adoptees, and we argue that mainstream racial discourses influence romantic preferences across variations in personal experience, local demographics, and social distance. Applying a dating-history approach to a probability sample of semistructured interviews with fifty-eigh…
The Meaning of 'Racism
This article explores the meanings of racism in the sociology of race/ethnicity and provides a descriptive framework for comparing theories of racism. The authors argue that sociologists use racism to refer to four constructs: (1) individual attitudes, (2) cultural schema, and two constructs associated with structural racism: (3) preexisting consequential inequalities, that is, racial dominance, and (4) processes that create or maintain racial do…
Shifting the spotlight: Exploring race and culture in Korean-White adoptive families
Measuring Hispanics/Latinxs: Racial Heterogeneity and Its Consequences for Modeling Social Outcomes in U.S. Population Samples
Quantitative sociologists have recognized the challenges of studying Latinx Americans, given their unique racial heterogeneity and unique measurement in surveys through dedicated Latinx-ethnicity questions. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, the author examines who identifies as Hispanic/Latinx when the option is a permitted response on a combined race/ethnicity question. The study reveals that national origin, c…
It Starts Early: Toward a Longitudinal Analysis of Interracial Intimacy
Researchers regard interracial intimacy as a mechanism for integration because of the assumption that the partners come from distinct social worlds (e.g., racially homogeneous friendship networks). Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), the author investigates the relationship between interracial friendship and interracial intimacy, specifically the question of how young adults' chances of having an inte…
Response to HoSang; Fujimura, Bolnick, Rajagopalan, Kaufman, Lewontin, Duster, Ossorio, and Marks; and Morning
Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States
Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States
Shifting the spotlight: Exploring race and culture in Korean-White adoptive families
Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity: Race and Philanthropy in Post–Civil Rights America
"Diversity" has become a mantra in corporate boardrooms, higher education, and government hiring and contracting. In Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity, Jiannbin Lee Shiao explains the leading role that large philanthropies have played in establishing diversity as a goal throughout American society in the post–civil rights era. By creating and institutionalizing diversity policies, these private organizations have quietly transforme…
Some Asian Men Are Attractive to Me, but for a Husband: Korean Adoptees and the Salience of Race in Romance
Two indicators of race relations in the United States are interracial marriage and transracial adoption. We examine the salience of race in the romantic involvements of Korean adoptees, and we argue that mainstream racial discourses influence romantic preferences across variations in personal experience, local demographics, and social distance. Applying a dating-history approach to a probability sample of semistructured interviews with fifty-eigh…
Korean Adoptees and the Social Context of Ethnic Exploration
In this article, the authors examine ethnic identity development among Korean adoptees and the ways they explore their ethnicity in early adulthood. They argue that social context plays an important role in mediating whether and how adoptees pursue ethnic exploration. Employing a grounded theory analysis of a uniquely representative sample of Korean adoptees, they find that historical period and institutional setting shape the availability, conte…
Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging (review)
Reviewed by: Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging Jiannbin Lee Shiao (bio) Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging, by Eleana J. Kim. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. Xviii + 321 pp. $23.95 paper. ISBN 978-0-8223-4695-1. Adopted Territory is a multisited ethnography of how a growing number of adult Korean adoptees have come to adopt each other as family and…
The Genomic Challenge to the Social Construction of Race
Recent research on the human genome challenges the basic assumption that human races have no biological basis. In this article, we provide a theoretical synthesis that accepts the existence of genetic clusters consistent with certain racial classifications as well as the validity of the genomic research that has identified the clusters, without diminishing the social character of their context, meaning, production, or consequences. The first part…
Response to HoSang; Fujimura, Bolnick, Rajagopalan, Kaufman, Lewontin, Duster, Ossorio, and Marks; and Morning
Ethnicity versus Race
Ethnicity versus race is a conceptual distinction between different criteria for classifying humans, the social processes that transform those criteria into social realities, and positions in a debate on the goals of ethnic/racial studies.
The Meaning of Honorary Whiteness for Asian Americans: Boundary Expansion or Something Else
Research on interracial intimacy divides between quantitative comparisons of interracial and same-race marriages and qualitative studies of existing interracial unions. This article bridges the divide by examining how interracial dating histories differ from same-race dating histories among Asian Americans, a group that sociologists consistently regard as potentially having attained a racial status as 'honorary whites.' Synthesizing the literatur…
A Comparative Approach to Social Differences
It Starts Early: Toward a Longitudinal Analysis of Interracial Intimacy
Researchers regard interracial intimacy as a mechanism for integration because of the assumption that the partners come from distinct social worlds (e.g., racially homogeneous friendship networks). Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), the author investigates the relationship between interracial friendship and interracial intimacy, specifically the question of how young adults' chances of having an inte…
When (In)Consistency Matters: Racial Identification and Specification
Sociologists who rely on survey research have begun exploring the implications of racial inconsistency for not only multiracial identification but also for other social outcomes. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, the author explores the consequences of different specifications of race for modeling three outcomes: educational attainment, self-rated health, and interracial relationship history. The author uses the…
Stuck…But In What
The Meaning of 'Racism
This article explores the meanings of racism in the sociology of race/ethnicity and provides a descriptive framework for comparing theories of racism. The authors argue that sociologists use racism to refer to four constructs: (1) individual attitudes, (2) cultural schema, and two constructs associated with structural racism: (3) preexisting consequential inequalities, that is, racial dominance, and (4) processes that create or maintain racial do…
Measuring Hispanics/Latinxs: Racial Heterogeneity and Its Consequences for Modeling Social Outcomes in U.S. Population Samples
Quantitative sociologists have recognized the challenges of studying Latinx Americans, given their unique racial heterogeneity and unique measurement in surveys through dedicated Latinx-ethnicity questions. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, the author examines who identifies as Hispanic/Latinx when the option is a permitted response on a combined race/ethnicity question. The study reveals that national origin, c…
Over-educated or Overly Invested in Education? The Role of Educational Commitment in Asian American Socioeconomic Attainment
Beyond Homophily: The Boundary-Specific Effects of Interracial Contact
Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Ethnic group (7 works) · Race (biology (7 works)