Sentence examples for proxy for race from inspiring English sources

There is no proxy for race".

"Ancestry can be a proxy for race," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said in the majority opinion.

The editorial cites studies suggesting that income is a poor proxy for race, which is true.

Health and therefore age tends to serve as a proxy for race without any explicit reference to it".

As Taylor says: "There is a great deal of pressure to look for a proxy for race.

And in a city where economic inequality yawns wide, class has in some ways become a proxy for race.

Economic strategies cannot serve as a proxy for race-based ones.

Others say they have become especially alert to factors that may serve as proxies for race and ethnicity.

Even if constitutional, such considerations would surely have invited legal challenges from affirmative action opponents condemning them as mere proxies for race.

The doubts they have cast about his Christianity and his birthplace (some claim Obama wasn't born in America) are really proxies for race – a bid to cast him as the ultimate "other".

Instead, the guidelines focus on the wiggle room in the court decisions involving the University of Michigan, suggesting that institutions use other criteria — students' socioeconomic profiles, residential instability, the hardships they have overcome — that are often proxies for race.