Sentence examples for racial codes from inspiring English sources

The detention system is predatory and racially biased, Mr. Thompson claimed, with security guards using racial codes to alert one another that a minority shopper has entered an area.

(The characters are divided by race, but all racial codes have been deliberately removed).

To me, that word means all the dreadful Southern segregationist, Jim Crow business that's always shocked and revolted me". Yet her slogans such as, "Neighbourhood schools for neighbourhood children", her political refrain in 1967, or a phrase like "civil rights infiltrators" were racial codes easily translated by segregationists.

And this minority population is mostly a rising Hispanic population, whose votes the contemporary Democratic Party tends to court not with dog whistles or racial codes or vague identity-politics appeals, but with very explicit and specific promises of special legal treatment (in hiring, government contracting, college admissions, immigration policy, etc).

In our allegedly postracial moment, where simply talking about racism openly is considered an impolitic, if not racist, thing to do, we constantly learn and re-learn racial codes.

In other words, Simpson's imagery leaves us without a script to cue us in on how to "properly" (that is, conventionally and with prejudice and stereotypes) read, assimilate, and respond to the homosocial and racial codes we're presented.

This sounded like racial code language.

South Carolina was an apartheid state in 1925, completely segregated, where the racial code was enforced.

By positioning multimodality, and thus designing writing, historically, this essay exposes the racial coding of design.

The Southern strategy required the subtle art of racial coding: appealing to white Southern racism without alienating white suburbanites who recoiled at overt racial language.

"We Republicans have worked long and hard to develop insidious racial code words like 'entitlement society' and 'personal responsibility,' " said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky).