Peer-Reviewed Publications

Tokeshi, Matthew. 2023. “Anti-Black Prejudice in Asian American Public Opinion.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 11(2): 366-389. (publisher’s link)

Tokeshi, Matthew. 2022. “Rebuttals as Deracializing Strategies for African American and White Candidates.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 7(2): 219-238. (publisher’s link)

Tokeshi, Matthew. 2020. “Why Are African American Governors and U.S. Senators So Rare? Exploring White Voters’ Responses to African American Statewide Candidates.” Political Behavior 42(1), 285-304. (publisher’s link)

Tokeshi, Matthew, and Tali Mendelberg. 2015. “Countering Implicit Appeals: Which Strategies Work?” Political Communication 32(4): 648-672. (publisher’s link)

Work in Progress

“Measuring Racially Coded Campaign Communication: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of 300k Political E-mails” (with Katie Keith, Mark Hopkins, and Serah Park)

“A New Measure of Anti-Asian Prejudice and Its Political Consequences” (with Nathan Chan)

“The Racial Classification of Kamala Harris” (with Nathan Chan)

Writing for General Audiences

“Will Race and Gender Influence Opposition to Kamala Harris?” Columbia University Press Blog. September 18, 2024.

“How Americans actually perceive Kamala Harris’ racial identity” (with Nathan Chan). Good Authority. August 19, 2024.

“Matthew Tokeshi’s ‘Campaigning While Black’.” The Page 99 Test. October 11, 2023.

“Racial Politics in the Post-Trump Era.” Williams Magazine. Spring 2021.

Interviews

“How are seats filled when a member of Congress takes another job?” New Hampshire Public Radio Civics 101 podcast. December 2020.