M D A Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 69527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M D A Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | M D A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY M D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6285-6707 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The White Man Question: Race, Sex, and the Politics of American Sociological Review
During the Spring 2020 uprisings, the American Sociological Association professed an alignment with the goals of racial justice and gender equity. These statements, however, were met with those of the many BIPOC sociologists, who countercharged the discipline with a legacy of violent forms white male exclusivity. Today, this legacy of exclusivity arguably remains the most evident within faculty hires and promotions. Although the mechanisms behind…
Race/Ethnicity and Sleep Disparities
“Racial” Disparities in Access to Water and Sanitation in Jamaica
Although Jamaica meets UN benchmarks for potable water and sanitation (W.A.S.H) access, disparities in quality and access remain. Moreover, public discourse and scholarship on W.A.S.H. in the island often overlook the role of “race” in structuring patterns of unequal access. Using nationally representative data from the 2010–2018/19 AmericasBarometer, this study examines whether disparities in household access to W.A.S.H. are structured along “ra…
Skin Color and Educational Inequality among Black Individuals of the Anglophone Caribbean
Colorism, a form of racialized embodied capital, shapes structural opportunities and mobility within and across racial groups. In the Anglophone Caribbean, research on colorism has largely focused on Jamaica, which has precluded broader theoretical and empirical insights into the profound stratifying power of skin color. This study addresses this gap by analyzing data from the 2014 and 2016 AmericasBarometer social surveys to examine how skin col…
Reimagining “racial” stratification and inequality: Inter- and intraracial colorism in Trinidad and Tobago
The study highlights the multidimensionality of colorism by integrating intraracial and interracial analyses. By centering the case of Trinidad and Tobago, the findings highlight the enduring power of embodied cues-i.e., skin shade-in structuring social outcomes. Moreover, this study emphasizes the need for increased recognition of colorism as an active and salient racialized stratifier that shapes life chances, apart from more commonly centered …
Cumulative disadvantage and perceptions of unfair treatment
Drawing on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we examine how early life circumstances and hardships in young adulthood correlate with perceptions of unfair treatment, particularly as they relate to race/ethnicity. Building on cumulative disadvantage theory and integrating a structural oppression framework, we conceptualize unfair treatment as part of a broader life-course trajectory influenced by…
Does It Matter Where You Know Them from? Race-Ethnicity and the Impact of Social Domain on Intergroup Contact
Previous research generally suggests that increased racial-ethnic intergroup contact can reduce prejudice. Most studies, however, have examined the effects of contact within one social domain, that is, the specific context in which contact occurs. Thus, the question of how the social domain shapes the strength and direction of the contact–prejudice relationship remains underexplored. Utilizing data from a self-administered online survey (N = 637)…
Mapping Racial Fluidity over Time in Jamaica
The author examines racial fluidity, defined as ambiguity around racial boundaries and shifting national identification patterns over time, in Jamaica. Using data from the 2010 to 2023 AmericasBarometer in Jamaica, the author explores how skin color and socioeconomic status (SES) influence Black or mixed self-identification and whether racial schemas have evolved. The results show that both skin color and SES are associated with racial identifica…
Skin color and socioeconomic inequality: The persistence of colorism among black Jamaicans
The changing terrain of racial inequality in Trinidad and Tobago
Racial inequality in the Anglophone Caribbean: Comparing the cases of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago
Research on racial inequality is expansive, with a growing body of work highlighting the nuances of racial inequality using a multidimensional approach. Much of this research has been conducted in Latin America and the United Stated; however, very little is known about how the Anglophone Caribbean fits into this discourse despite the many similarities it shares with these other regions of the Americas. To address this lacuna in the literature and…
Examining Race in Jamaica: How Racial Category and Skin Color Structure Social Inequality
Racial inequality and the recognition of racial discrimination in Jamaica
A growing body of literature posits that a population’s denial of the salience of racial discrimination acts as a mechanism of its perpetuation. Moreover, scholars locate a population’s propensity to deny racial discrimination in contemporary ideologies of racial mixing or ethnic fusion. Most quantitative studies of public opinion on these issues are limited to Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. This study examines the case of Jama…
Examining Race in Jamaica: How Racial Category and Skin Color Structure Social Inequality
Racial inequality and the recognition of racial discrimination in Jamaica
A growing body of literature posits that a population’s denial of the salience of racial discrimination acts as a mechanism of its perpetuation. Moreover, scholars locate a population’s propensity to deny racial discrimination in contemporary ideologies of racial mixing or ethnic fusion. Most quantitative studies of public opinion on these issues are limited to Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. This study examines the case of Jama…
Racial inequality in the Anglophone Caribbean: Comparing the cases of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago
Research on racial inequality is expansive, with a growing body of work highlighting the nuances of racial inequality using a multidimensional approach. Much of this research has been conducted in Latin America and the United Stated; however, very little is known about how the Anglophone Caribbean fits into this discourse despite the many similarities it shares with these other regions of the Americas. To address this lacuna in the literature and…
Mapping Racial Fluidity over Time in Jamaica
The author examines racial fluidity, defined as ambiguity around racial boundaries and shifting national identification patterns over time, in Jamaica. Using data from the 2010 to 2023 AmericasBarometer in Jamaica, the author explores how skin color and socioeconomic status (SES) influence Black or mixed self-identification and whether racial schemas have evolved. The results show that both skin color and SES are associated with racial identifica…
Skin color and socioeconomic inequality: The persistence of colorism among black Jamaicans
The changing terrain of racial inequality in Trinidad and Tobago
Racial inequality and the recognition of racial discrimination in Jamaica
A growing body of literature posits that a population’s denial of the salience of racial discrimination acts as a mechanism of its perpetuation. Moreover, scholars locate a population’s propensity to deny racial discrimination in contemporary ideologies of racial mixing or ethnic fusion. Most quantitative studies of public opinion on these issues are limited to Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. This study examines the case of Jama…
Examining Race in Jamaica: How Racial Category and Skin Color Structure Social Inequality
The changing terrain of racial inequality in Trinidad and Tobago
Racial inequality in the Anglophone Caribbean: Comparing the cases of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago
Research on racial inequality is expansive, with a growing body of work highlighting the nuances of racial inequality using a multidimensional approach. Much of this research has been conducted in Latin America and the United Stated; however, very little is known about how the Anglophone Caribbean fits into this discourse despite the many similarities it shares with these other regions of the Americas. To address this lacuna in the literature and…
Skin color and socioeconomic inequality: The persistence of colorism among black Jamaicans
Does It Matter Where You Know Them from? Race-Ethnicity and the Impact of Social Domain on Intergroup Contact
Previous research generally suggests that increased racial-ethnic intergroup contact can reduce prejudice. Most studies, however, have examined the effects of contact within one social domain, that is, the specific context in which contact occurs. Thus, the question of how the social domain shapes the strength and direction of the contact–prejudice relationship remains underexplored. Utilizing data from a self-administered online survey (N = 637)…
Mapping Racial Fluidity over Time in Jamaica
The author examines racial fluidity, defined as ambiguity around racial boundaries and shifting national identification patterns over time, in Jamaica. Using data from the 2010 to 2023 AmericasBarometer in Jamaica, the author explores how skin color and socioeconomic status (SES) influence Black or mixed self-identification and whether racial schemas have evolved. The results show that both skin color and SES are associated with racial identifica…
The White Man Question: Race, Sex, and the Politics of American Sociological Review
During the Spring 2020 uprisings, the American Sociological Association professed an alignment with the goals of racial justice and gender equity. These statements, however, were met with those of the many BIPOC sociologists, who countercharged the discipline with a legacy of violent forms white male exclusivity. Today, this legacy of exclusivity arguably remains the most evident within faculty hires and promotions. Although the mechanisms behind…
Race/Ethnicity and Sleep Disparities
“Racial” Disparities in Access to Water and Sanitation in Jamaica
Although Jamaica meets UN benchmarks for potable water and sanitation (W.A.S.H) access, disparities in quality and access remain. Moreover, public discourse and scholarship on W.A.S.H. in the island often overlook the role of “race” in structuring patterns of unequal access. Using nationally representative data from the 2010–2018/19 AmericasBarometer, this study examines whether disparities in household access to W.A.S.H. are structured along “ra…
Skin Color and Educational Inequality among Black Individuals of the Anglophone Caribbean
Colorism, a form of racialized embodied capital, shapes structural opportunities and mobility within and across racial groups. In the Anglophone Caribbean, research on colorism has largely focused on Jamaica, which has precluded broader theoretical and empirical insights into the profound stratifying power of skin color. This study addresses this gap by analyzing data from the 2014 and 2016 AmericasBarometer social surveys to examine how skin col…
Reimagining “racial” stratification and inequality: Inter- and intraracial colorism in Trinidad and Tobago
The study highlights the multidimensionality of colorism by integrating intraracial and interracial analyses. By centering the case of Trinidad and Tobago, the findings highlight the enduring power of embodied cues-i.e., skin shade-in structuring social outcomes. Moreover, this study emphasizes the need for increased recognition of colorism as an active and salient racialized stratifier that shapes life chances, apart from more commonly centered …
Cumulative disadvantage and perceptions of unfair treatment
Drawing on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we examine how early life circumstances and hardships in young adulthood correlate with perceptions of unfair treatment, particularly as they relate to race/ethnicity. Building on cumulative disadvantage theory and integrating a structural oppression framework, we conceptualize unfair treatment as part of a broader life-course trajectory influenced by…
Inequality (8 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (7 works) · Racism (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Population (4 works)