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Bloom, Stephen G., author.
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Elliott, Jane, 1933-
Racism -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Iowa -- Riceville.
Prejudices in children -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Iowa -- Riceville.
Racism -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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Blue eyes, brown eye...
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Blue eyes, brown eyes : a cautionary tale of race and brutality / Stephen G. Bloom.
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Bloom, Stephen G., author.
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.
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9780520382268 (hardcover)
0520382269 (hardcover)
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xviii, 263 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Author's note : The scab -- Prologue : the tonight show -- The corn -- Dirty little bastards -- Pizzui -- Elysian fields -- From Memphis to Riceville -- The experiment -- "Did she really?" -- "Here's Johnny!" -- Back home -- What some of the kids said -- Rotarians -- "Eye of the storm" -- The White House -- Trouble -- Blackboard jungle -- Spooner -- A blind spot -- Class reunion -- The offer -- Unbound -- Oprah -- The greater good -- The dogs bar, but the caravan goes on -- Afterword : the case of Robert Coles and others -- Coda : Andy's and the ville.
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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 eyes. 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"--
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