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Many studies have shown that people are better at recognizing faces of their own race own-race faces, relative to faces of other races. This effect is known as the other-race effect (ORE). The aim of the current study was to investigate eye movement strategies during recognition in own- and other-race faces. Twenty three participants were tested. They were presented images of the faces displaying features of four different racial groups (Caucasian, African, South Eastern Asian and East Indian). The experiment consisted of two series. During the first one the participants were asked to remember twenty faces, five for each race. In the second series they should recognize previously seen faces which were presented among other twenty distracter faces. During the performance recognition accuracy and eye movement parameters (fixation counts and durations, saccade counts and amplitudes) were recorded. The results showed that the ORE was replicated, with superior recognition accuracy of own-race faces, relative to other-race faces. The analysis of eye movement parameters revealed no significant differences between faces of different race groups. Our results also showed that for any race groups there were significant differences in fixation durations and saccade parameters between the learning and the recognition phases. Our results may suggest that studied eye movement parameters are not sensitive to the ORE effect.