Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38226-8 (ISBN)
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.
Stephen G. Bloom is an award-winning journalist and author of five nonfiction books: The Audacity of Inez Burns, Tears of Mermaids, The Oxford Project, Inside the Writer’s Mind, and Postville. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of Iowa.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.10.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 22 b-w photographs |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-38226-9 / 0520382269 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-38226-8 / 9780520382268 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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