Format:
1 online resource (310 pages)
ISBN:
9780520382275
Content:
The never-before-told true story of Jane Elliott and the "Blue-Eyes, Brown-Eyes Experiment" she made world-famous, using eye color to simulate racism. The day after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968, Jane Elliott, a schoolteacher in rural Iowa, introduced to her all-white third-grade class a shocking experiment to demonstrate the scorching impact of racism. Elliott separated students into two groups. She instructed the brown-eyed children to heckle and berate the blue-eyed students, even to start fights with them. Without telling the children the experiment's purpose, Elliott demonstrated how easy it was to create abhorrent racist behavior based on students' eye color, not skin color. As a result, Elliott would go on to appear on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, followed by a stormy White House conference, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and thousands of media events and diversity-training sessions worldwide, during which she employed the provocative experiment to induce racism. Was the experiment benign? Or was it a cruel, self-serving exercise in sadism? Did it work? Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes is a meticulously researched book that details for the first time Jane Elliott's jagged rise to stardom. It is an unflinching assessment of the incendiary experiment forever associated with Elliott, even though she was not the first to try it out. Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes offers an intimate portrait of the insular community where Elliott grew up and conducted the experiment on the town's children for more than a decade. The searing story is a cautionary tale that examines power and privilege in and out of the classroom. It also documents small-town White America's reflex reaction to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the subsequent meteoric rise of diversity training that flourishes today. All the while, Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes
Content:
Cover -- Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Author's Note: The Scab -- Prologue: The Tonight Show -- 1 The Corn -- 2 Dirty Little Bastards -- 3 Pizzui -- 4 Elysian Fields -- 5 From Memphis to Riceville -- 6 The Experiment -- 7 "Did She Really?" -- 8 "Here's Johnny!" -- 9 Back Home -- 10 What Some of the Kids Said -- 11 Rotarians -- 12 "Eye of the Storm" -- 13 The White House -- 14 Trouble -- 15 Blackboard Jungle -- 16 Spooner -- 17 A Blind Spot -- 18 Class Reunion -- 19 The Offer -- 20 Unbound -- 21 Oprah -- 22 The Greater Good -- 23 The Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Goes On -- Afterword: The Case of Robert Coles and Others -- Coda: Andy's and the Ville -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- Illustrations.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520382268
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bloom, Stephen G. Blue eyes, brown eyes Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2021 ISBN 9780520382268
Language:
English
Keywords:
Iowa
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Schüler
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Rassismus
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Vorurteil
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