Blue Eyed

In this powerful program, Jane Elliott takes a group of adults in Kansas City (teachers, police, school administrators, and social workers) of different races and conditions them to discriminate against another group, based on eye color. The program shows how the discrination develops and builds and...

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Other Authors: Infobase,, Admire Productions, Inc. (Firm)
Format: Video
Language: English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Admire Productions, Inc., [1996]
Distributed by Infobase,
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 32 min., 58 sec)) : sound.
Series: Complete Blue Eyed.
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Summary: In this powerful program, Jane Elliott takes a group of adults in Kansas City (teachers, police, school administrators, and social workers) of different races and conditions them to discriminate against another group, based on eye color. The program shows how the discrination develops and builds and its effects on the second group. Elliott reflects on how she developed her original classroom experiment after the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination and the backlash she and her family faced because of it.
Item Description: Originally released by Admire Productions, Inc., 1996.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on September 10, 2019.
Psychological Exercise (7:10); Exercise Parameters and Power Reinforcement (11:09); Exercise Origins and Instructions (9:55); Blue Eye/Brown Eye Exercise (14:57); Riceville, Iowa (3:49); Blue Eye/Brown Eye Exercise: Submission (12:38); Psychological Impact (6:34); Blue Eye/Brown Eye Exercise: Stress (10:09); "The Eye of the Storm" (6:14); Exercise Reflections (7:14); Credits: Blue Eyed (1:13);
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In this powerful program, Jane Elliott takes a group of adults in Kansas City (teachers, police, school administrators, and social workers) of different races and conditions them to discriminate against another group, based on eye color. The program shows how the discrination develops and builds and its effects on the second group. Elliott reflects on how she developed her original classroom experiment after the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination and the backlash she and her family faced because of it.
9 - 12, Academic/AP.
Streaming video file.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Closed-captioned.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 32 min., 58 sec)) : sound.
Format: Streaming video file.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience: 9 - 12, Academic/AP.
Access: Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.