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Portra Images A recent peer-review study found that black individuals who discover as mixed-race are considered more attractive.  Published within the June 2016 issue of Review of Black Political Economy, the study’s findings are based entirely off of perception and didn't take conventional variables like hair texture and skin tone under consideration. “The straightforward perception of exoticism sways people to see multicultural blacks as better-looking,” said study creator Robert L. Reece, an African American doctoral candidate in sociology at Duke University. The identical held true even when the person was not actually of mixed race, so long as they identified as such. In a series of controlled interviews, Reece attempted to check and measure the ability of perception. 3,200 black subjects were asked questions on their racial...