colour-conscious BrE
color-conscious AmE

Ray-Jones once explained, 'I found America a very colour-conscious country.

Apart from the fuss over light-skinned children, Dave says in his experience the Warlpiri are not very colour-conscious.

They carried an answer to division; as one Irishman said, 'You people have brought us what we need in this colour-conscious land of Orange and Green.'

Standing with hands on hips, he proclaimed that "we Telosians consider women to be too illogical and too colour-conscious to easily embrace a life within a uniform race of logical beings.

He recalled that his fellow soldiers "were not colour-conscious", and that during training in northern Queensland his white mates would sit alongside him in the "Aboriginal" section of movie theatres.

Since I was a young man, I have always felt like an outsider, and looking back, I sense there is a connection between my behaviour and my upbringing in a colour-conscious society.

A new product claiming to make women's intimate areas "fairer within four weeks" has revived the beauty debate in colour-conscious Thailand, where fair skin is associated with opportunity, success and status, and caused critics to question when, if ever, the fashion for skin-whitening will end.