Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: A Cautionary Tale of Race and Brutality

by Stephen G. Bloom

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520382269
• ISBN13: 9780520382268
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"