Academic at LSE in race row

Thursday 19 May 2011 00:00 BST

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Student leaders have demanded the sacking of an academic over an article in which he said black women were less attractive than other races.

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa, a reader at the London School of Economics, made the claim this week on the US website Psychology Today.

He conducted a study asking participants to rank the attractiveness of of various races, and African women were the least desirable.

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