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Blue eyes, brown eyes : a cautionary tale of race and brutality / Stephen G. Bloom.

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"The day after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, Jane Elliott, a third-grade schoolteacher in rural Iowa, tried out a shocking experiment to show the scorching impact of racism on children. Elliott separated her students according to the color of their. Those with brown eyes would l...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Bloom, Stephen G. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Elliott, Jane, > 1933-
Racism > Study and teaching (Elementary) > Iowa > Riceville.
Prejudices in children > Study and teaching (Elementary) > Iowa > Riceville.
Racism > United States > Psychological aspects.
Racism > Psychological aspects.
Racism > Study and teaching (Elementary)
Iowa > Riceville.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Author's note : The scab
  • Prologue : the tonight show
  • The corn
  • Dirty little bastards
  • Pizzui
  • Elysian
  • Memphis to Riceville
  • The experiment
  • "Did she really?"
  • "Here's Johnny!"
  • Back home
  • What the kids said
  • Rotarians
  • Eye of the storm
  • The White House
  • Trouble
  • Blackboard jungle
  • Spooner
  • A blind spot
  • Class reunion
  • The offer
  • Unleashed
  • Oprah
  • The greater good
  • The caravan
  • Afterword : the case of Robert Coles and the others
  • Coda : Andy's and the ville
  • Appendix : universities & colleges where Jane Elliot has delivered lectures.

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