Kelly Jackson

Book 

Jackson, K. F., & Samuels, G. M. (2019). Multiracial Cultural Attunement. Washington DC: NASW Press.

Recent Refereed Articles

Jackson, K. F. (Accepted). Colonization is Not a Metaphor: Confronting Epistemic Gatekeeping of Critical inquiry in Social Work. Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work.

Jackson, K. F. (2025). Stop & Rest: Black Women, Refusal, and Rest as Praxis in Social Work [In brief]. Affilia.  https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099251400329 

Jackson, K. F., Ogbonnaya, I. N., Carver, A.*, Crudup, C., Mackey, C.*, & Mitchell, F. (2024). Anti-Blackness in Schools of Social Work: A Black Feminist Polyethnography. Journal of Social Work Education, 60(3), 419–432. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2024.2338233  *Best Qualitative Research Article of 2024 Journal of Social Work Education

Jackson, K. F. (2024). A Critical Scoping Review of Mental Health and Wellbeing Research with Multiracial Subsamples, 2012-2022. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 11, 3584–3605. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-023-01811-2   

Jackson, K.F. (2023). A Critical Content Analysis of Multiracial Content at SSWR, 2009-2022. Social Work Research, 47(3), 220–225. https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svad007 

Jackson, K. F., & Yang Mumma, S.* (2023). Visualizing Multiracial Identity Development. Qualitative                                                       Social Work, 22(3), 411-430. https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250221087877

Jackson, K.F., Mitchell, F. M., Ogbonnaya, I. N.+, *Mackey, C., Crudup, C., & *Carver, A. T. (2022). Taking Back the Narrative: Gendered Anti-Blackness in Predominantly White Schools of Social Work. Affilia, 37(4), 565–584. https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099221099322 *Recipient of Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work’s Distinguished Feminist Scholarship & Practice in Social Work Award (2023)         

Gabriel, A. K.*, Yoo, H. C., Jackson, K. F., & Guevarra Jr, R. P. (2022). Perceived monoracism and psychological adjustment of multiracial adults: The roles of racially diverse contexts and creating third space. American Journal of Community Psychology, 69(3-4), 484-502. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12564 

Atkin, A.L.*, Jackson, K.F., & Yoo, H.C., White, R.M.B., & Tran, A.G.T.T. (2022a). A qualitative examination of familial-racial-ethnic socialization experiences among diverse Multiracial emerging adults. Journal of Family Psychology. 36(2), 179-190. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000918  

Atkin, A. L.*, Yoo, H. C., White, R. M. B., Tran, A. G. T. T., & Jackson, K. F. (2022b). Validation of the Multiracial Youth Socialization (MY-Soc) Scale among racially diverse Multiracial emerging adults. Journal of Family Psychology 36, 13-22.  https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/fam0000879

Jackson, K. F. (2022). Teaching note - Challenging monocentricity in social work education: Creating critical counterspaces of multiraciality. Journal of Social Work Education, 58(3), 593-602. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2021.1895928 

Mendoza, T. S., Mackey, C.*, Harner, V.+, & Jackson, K. F. (2021). Queering and Attuning SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework. Social Work Research, 45(3), 187-197. https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svab012 

Jackson, K. F., Stone, D. E., Chilungu, E. N., & Ford, J. C. (2021). “Complicating My Place:” Multiracial women of color faculty navigating monocentricity in higher education--A polyethnography. Race Ethnicity and Education, 24(2), 167-185.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13613324.2020.1753679 

Atkin, A. L.*, & Jackson, K. F. (2021). “Mom, You Don’t Get It”: A Critical Examination of Multiracial Emerging Adults’ Perceptions of Parental Support. Emerging Adulthood, 9(4), 305–319. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167696820914091

Jackson, K. F., Mitchell, F., Snyder, C.*, & Samuels, G. M. (2020). Salience of Ethnic Minority Grandparents in the Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Identity Development of Multiracial Grandchildren. Identity, 20(2), 73-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2020.1728535