Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes

Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes
Author: Stephen G. Bloom
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520382277

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 reveals the struggles that tormented a determined and righteous woman, today referred to as the “Mother of Diversity Training,” who was driven against all odds to succeed.

A Collar in My Pocket

A Collar in My Pocket
Author: Jane Elliott
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2016-08-03
Genre: Moral education
ISBN: 9781534619203

Jane Elliott is an educator who began her career in a third-grade classroom in Riceville, Iowa, and over the past fifty years has become an educator of people of all ages all over the U.S. and abroad.The Blue-eyed, Brown-eyed Exercise which she devised to help her students to understand Martin Luther King, Jr.'s work, has been cited and studied by psychologists and sociologists all over the world. Elliott lives in a remodeled schoolhouse twenty-one miles from where she was born. She remains stedfast in her belief that there is only one race, THE HUMAN RACE, of which we are all members.

Brown Eyes Blue

Brown Eyes Blue
Author: Carolyn Meyer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2004
Genre: Middle-aged women
ISBN: 1882593839

A tender story of mother-daughter relationships over three generations unfolds amid secrets and revelations.

Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes

Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes
Author: Stephen G. Bloom
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0520382269

"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 lord over those with blue eyes. The brown-eyed students were given permission to heckle and berate the blue-eyed students, even to start fights with them. The Blue-Eyed, Brown-Eyed Experiment would become world famous. Elliott would go on to appear on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, followed by a stormy White House conference, and tens of thousands of media events and diversity training sessions around the world. Elliott taught 'Black Lives Matter' fifty years before the phrase was ever uttered. Yet the small town where Elliott began the incendiary experiment never forgot or forgave her. She paid a price for her hard-fought fame. But was Elliott the benign and enlightened mother of diversity she claimed to be? The damage she caused still reverberates. An indelible, confounding portrait of a woman driven to succeed, set against the backdrop of a proud and upright farming community."--

Amy Carmichael

Amy Carmichael
Author: Catherine MacKenzie
Publisher: Little Lights
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre:
ISBN: 9781845501082

When Amy Carmichael was a little girl she had begged God to give her blue eyes. But blue eyes were not the eyes of India - but Amy's brown eyes were.

Some Did it for Civilisation, Some Did it for Their Country

Some Did it for Civilisation, Some Did it for Their Country
Author: Jane E. Elliott
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789629960667

This book marks a total departure from previous studies of the Boxer War. It evaluates the way the war was perceived and portrayed at the time by the mass media. As such the book offers insights to a wider audience than that of sinologists or Chinese historians. The important distinction made by the author is between image makers and eyewitnesses. Whole categories of powerful image makers, both Chinese and foreign, never saw anything of the Boxer War but were responsible for disseminating images of that war to millions of people in China and throughout the world.

Sweet Judy Blue Eyes

Sweet Judy Blue Eyes
Author: Judy Collins
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2011-10-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307717364

A vivid, highly evocative memoir of one of the reigning icons of folk music, highlighting the decade of the ’60s, when hits like “Both Sides Now” catapulted her to international fame. Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is the deeply personal, honest, and revealing memoir of folk legend and relentlessly creative spirit Judy Collins. In it, she talks about her alcoholism, her lasting love affair with Stephen Stills, her friendships with Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Fariña, David Crosby, and Leonard Cohen and, above all, the music that helped define a decade and a generation’s sound track. Sweet Judy Blue Eyes invites the reader into the parties that peppered Laurel Canyon and into the recording studio so we see how cuts evolved take after take, while it sets an array of amazing musical talent against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent decades of twentieth-century America. Beautifully written, richly textured, and sharply insightful, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is an unforgettable chronicle of the folk renaissance in America.

Cocaine and Blue Eyes

Cocaine and Blue Eyes
Author: Fred Zackel
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2006-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0809562138

Michael Brennan, private eye, follows a trail in search of the girlfriend of a dead cocaine dealer that leads him to high society and surprises along the way.