Jane Elliot's Blue Eye Brown Eye Stereotypes

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The Jane Elliot’s blue-eyed, brown-eyed experiment was the second film I watched in the class Social Justice 6404. As the class continues to discuss the issues of black/white, discriminatory and prejudices, we watched a film called “Blue eye Brown eye experiment” to explain some of the class questions about these issues. The experiment was Jane Elliott, a white teacher from Iowa to teach about prejudices and provide an examination of the realities of discrimination by experiencing with third-grade students in a classroom setting to show how quickly children can be persuaded to discriminatory behavior. Also, it was the ideas of diversity, race, and privilege, to show white people what life would be if you are not white. Elliot’s experience

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