{"id":5854,"date":"2016-08-29T13:51:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T18:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2016-09-14T09:42:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:42:56","slug":"race-and-perceived-attractiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2016\/08\/29\/race-and-perceived-attractiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Race and Perceived Attractiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A lot of things go into making your appearance – fashion, accessories, grooming … and race? As described in an article on <\/span>Vox<\/span><\/a>, research by Duke sociologist\u00a0<\/span>Robert L. Reece<\/span><\/a> shows that black people are seen as more attractive if they tell others that they\u2019re mixed-race. A research team conducted over 3,200 interviews with black people and ranked their attractiveness on a scale of 1-5. Those who said they were mixed-race received a higher score. Reese concluded that these findings are not a result of\u00a0physical attributes or colorism; rather, they are about perceived racial identity. Vox reports,<\/span><\/p>\n

“[Reece said] results could be partially explained by the fact that people think ‘being exotic is a compelling idea.’ But, he added, ‘It\u2019s also partially just racism \u2014 the notion that black people are less attractive, so being partially not-black makes you more attractive.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is not the first research to address this troubling dynamic; numerous studies have shown that resumes with white names are more likely to receive callbacks than those with black names. Other research has shown similar results for college applicants, those seeking health care, and people looking for mortgages or loans. This new research, however, shows that the effects of race go beyond the above-described settings, and that who\u2019s considered “good-looking” is itself a product of racial hierarchies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot of things go into making your appearance – fashion, accessories, grooming … and race? As described in an article on Vox, research by Duke sociologist\u00a0Robert L. Reece shows that black people are seen as more attractive if they tell others that they\u2019re mixed-race. A research team conducted over 3,200 interviews with black people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,55,13,14],"tags":[4615,387,39114,39111,29606],"class_list":["post-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-gender","category-inequality","category-race","tag-attractiveness","tag-dating","tag-gender","tag-race","tag-racial-disparities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5861,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions\/5861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}