In the conservative, race-conscious South, that's not a minor charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [John McCain: hypocrite, flip-flopper] Reference

'If I have to make a self-diagnosis, I could only call myself a race-conscious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 4] Reference

COLBY KING, "WASHINGTON POST" COLUMNIST: I think it's a very race-conscious country.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2008] Reference

But you missed your chance to tease back that I too was unconsciously race-conscious!.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close..."] Reference

They can be "race-conscious" but they will have to be class - and gender "conscious" too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Winant: Dealing with Racism in the Age of Obama] Reference

If that interepretation is accurate, then Obama does appear to be "profoundly race-conscious.".    From Wordnik.com.  ["Barack Obama does have an ideological core."] Reference

Schools can be "race-conscious," he wrote, though race can't be the only or controlling factor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Race in the Workplace] Reference

PTA board member Mary Myers says the race-conscious assignment plan has also equalized school resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs, cartoons, rotting fish, peevish men...] Reference

The Court had recognized, he continued, only two compelling interests that could justify race-conscious plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Supreme Court Phalanx] Reference

Media analysis, aided (if that is the right word) by exit polls, is more race-conscious (or obsessed) than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Race Perplex] Reference

After all, the more race-conscious we are, the more "need" there is for outfits like the National Children's Bureau.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Department of Racial Development] Reference

This seems analogous to Affirmative Action programs wherein race-conscious remedies are implemented to combat racism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can *Beta* Males Be (Pro)Feminists?] Reference

We believe that the Court of Appeals was wrong in holding that all non-remedial, race-conscious employment decisions are prohibited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Statement By Charles Ruff] Reference

He would oppose the race-conscious systems employed by Michigan, and suggest that the U of M try a different, race-neutral method first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spinning Race] Reference

America has become race-conscious in a manner reminiscent of the worst days in the most backward countries of nineteenth-century Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virtue of Selfishness]

I would like to see more specific-issue guest-blogging, like the excellent recent series on race-conscious law school admission policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bring Out Your Feedback:] Reference

Cornyn solemnly denounced the remarks as divisively race-conscious, and Kirk eventually was forced to express "regret" at having made them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wag The War] Reference

Proponents of race-conscious admissions policies have yet to produce a study of their educational benefits without some limitation or flaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's Universities Are Living a Diversity Lie] Reference

The Texas case tests a 2003 Supreme Court decision that upheld a race-conscious admissions system at the University of Michigan Law School.    From Wordnik.com.  [White House Court Brief Backs Race-Based Admissions] Reference

They were not a closely knit clan, suspicious of strangers and alert to any deviation from the norm, as more race-conscious tribes might be.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Traders] Reference

In response to these speeches, Newsweek said King was "over his head" and wanted a "race-conscious minority" to dictate U.S. foreign policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Cohen: 40 Years Later, (The Late) Martin Luther King Still Silenced] Reference

His lifetime's work was devoted to preserving constitutionally suspect, race-conscious public policies that sort and divide citizens by race.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Ashcroft Hearing: Senators Make Opening Statements, Question Attorney General Nominee - January 16, 2001] Reference

Moran has a point inasmuch as white Americans (or at least those in the Deep South) were highly race-conscious, and invidiously so, back in 1922.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the WSJ Opinion Archives] Reference

In response to these speeches, Newsweek said King was “over his head” and wanted a “race-conscious minority” to dictate U.S. foreign policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [(The Late) M.L. King Still Silenced] Reference

When Creswell started his department in July 1924, it consisted of himself and a secretary, C.W. Cousins, the race-conscious former director of census.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 15] Reference

In addition, it requires states to take affirmative steps to promote racial understanding, including the use of race-conscious measures when appropriate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Help make US Government own up to its racial disparities and eliminate them] Reference

I also have no problem with the constitutionality of (some) race-conscious affirmative action, as long as it does not involve class or caste legislation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Justice Anthony Kennedy, who sometimes splits from his fellow conservatives but has been skeptical of race-conscious laws, is likely to cast the deciding vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Showdown on Voting Rights] Reference

But race-conscious plans like those Seattle and Louisville adopted have worked well across the nation, and have resulted in remarkably little intense objection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lotto for Learning?] Reference

Obama wrote 40 columns for the Hyde Park Herald during those years, from which Kurtz extracts that Obama is "profoundly race-conscious" and "exceedingly liberal.".    From Wordnik.com.  ["Barack Obama does have an ideological core."] Reference

When the court decided that had been accomplished, school officials voluntarily continued with the race-conscious plans so that the progress made would not be lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three years after landmark court decision, Louisville still struggles with school desegregation] Reference

But Obama wrote 40 columns for the Hyde Park Herald during those years, from which Kurtz extracts that Obama is "profoundly race-conscious" and "exceedingly liberal.".    From Wordnik.com.  ["Barack Obama does have an ideological core."] Reference

If his attacks on "race-conscious" efforts to increase diversity do not include affirmative action, his charges against "liberal racists" become virtually meaningless.    From Wordnik.com.  ['America's Caste System': Two Exchanges] Reference

In the mid 1970s, when colleges talked about the educational benefits of race-conscious admissions, what they had in mind were the benefits reaped by minority students.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's Universities Are Living a Diversity Lie] Reference

Indeed, Clarence Thomas equates today's advocates of race-conscious remedies with segregationists of the past — a view that liberals on and outside the court find outlandish.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sliver of Hope] Reference

It was a landmark moment for a court that has long struggled with race-conscious decisions by government: when they are warranted, and when they have outlived their usefulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three years after landmark court decision, Louisville still struggles with school desegregation] Reference

In the latter cases, as in the former, careful study left no ground for the slightest suspicion that the race-conscious plan aimed at any illegitimate or merely political goal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Supreme Court Phalanx] Reference