{"id":48625,"date":"2016-08-15T13:19:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48625"},"modified":"2016-08-15T18:12:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T18:12:54","slug":"beauty-is-in-the-ear-of-the-beholder-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48625","title":{"rendered":"Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/dukeresearch\/2016\/08\/10\/beauty-is-in-the-ear-of-the-beholder-too\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder Too<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/dukeresearch\" target=\"_blank\">Duke Research Blog<\/a><br \/>\nDuke University<br \/>\n2016-08-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricFerreri\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Eric Ferreri<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just the suggestion that an African-American person is of mixed-race heritage makes that person more attractive to others, research from Duke University concludes.<\/p>\n<p>This holds true even if the people in question aren\u2019t actually of multiracial heritage, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48631\" target=\"_blank\">peer-reviewed study<\/a>, published in the June 2016 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/12114\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Review of Black Political Economy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The simple perception of exoticism sways people to see multiracial blacks as better-looking, says study author <a href=\"http:\/\/duke.academia.edu\/RobertReece\" target=\"_blank\">Robert L. Reece<\/a>, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Duke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing exotic is a compelling idea,\u201d Reece says. \u201cSo people are attracted to a certain type of difference. It\u2019s also partially just racism \u2013 the notion that black people are less attractive, so being partially not-black makes you more attractive.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/dukeresearch\/2016\/08\/10\/beauty-is-in-the-ear-of-the-beholder-too\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder Too Duke Research Blog Duke University 2016-08-10 Eric Ferreri Just the suggestion that an African-American person is of mixed-race heritage makes that person more attractive to others, research from Duke University concludes. This holds true even if the people in question aren\u2019t actually of multiracial heritage, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394,20],"tags":[24730,24731,9190,24732,15062,9189],"class_list":["post-48625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-duke-research-blog","tag-eric-ferreri","tag-review-of-black-political-economy","tag-robert-l-reece","tag-robert-reece","tag-the-review-of-black-political-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48633,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48625\/revisions\/48633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}