investigate how candidates mobilize voters of different races and find that race-matching mobilization is more likely to occur in … more electorally volatile states as well as census tracts that are more densely concentrated with a single race …

-traditional identities evoking a mixed race (or multiracial) background are more prevalent in society today, particularly among younger … about U.S. race relations while racial minorities generally respond more unfavorably to the assertions of these identities …