Segregation In Jane Elliott's The Blue-Eyed

The blue-eyed members are subjected to pseudo-scientific explanations of their inferiority, culturally biased IQ tests and blatant discrimination. When the inevitable resistance by a blue-eyes surfaces, Elliot cites the outburst as an example of

First off, people with blue eyes were considered “superior” to the brown-eyed people. When they were separated by eye color, there were often times were the blue-eyed people would make fun of the brown-eyed people. Due to the separation, they also treated each other very poorly just because of their eye color. When it came to academics, the brown-eyed people were always behind and not as smart even though this might not have been the case. Just because they were brown-eyed, they were dumb and wouldn’t be able to succeed academically.

The is the movie analysis of “A Class Divided” with topics discussed in class. The movie is a documentary dealing with the “Blue eyes/Green Eyes Experiment” conducted in 1968 by Mrs. Jane Elliott in her elementary school class. The experiment has been used in schools, government/business institutions, and correctional facilities to introduce the subject of racism and discrimination. This documentary provides evidence of a sociological theory demonstrated in Beverly Daniel Tatum’s essay “What Is Racism Anyway?”: Understanding the Basics of Racism and Prejudice.

This documentary was about how it feels to be discriminated upon and how it can be influenced in small children easily. Discrimination creates a barrier in the mind. For this reason, the barriers created by the prejudice are hard to overcome. In light to this, Elliott segregates her class according to eye color whereby brown eyes are perceived to be superior to the blue-eyed people. On the first day, the brown eyed pupils were provided with privileges (A Class Divided). They were allowed to have help at lunch, extra time at recess and a sense of self-worth above the blue eyed students. However, on the On the following day (not next) the situation is reversed and the blue eyed pupils are indulged with privilege which results to making brown eyed pupils feel less special compared with their peers. Elliott takes the opportunity to observe her class turning into a microcosm of society. Surprisingly, every time the experiment was carried out, the preferred group quickly turned the tables and embraced elite status. This implies that the two groups readily adopted the propaganda that Elliott sprouted on them (A Class Divided). The two created groups readily adopted their roles to perfection.

Martin Luther King have to die”. Jane Elliott did not know exactly how to explain that to an 8 year old. That is when Jane Elliott had came up with the “Class Divided” experiment.The purpose of the “Class divided” experiment was to teach children about racism. Jane Elliott was convinced that the best way to tackle the problem was to divide her class into two groups. One group was just with blue eyed children and the other group was with brown eyed children. When it was the brown eyes childrens turn Jane Elliott told the brown eyes that they can take their colors off and put it on whichever blue eye

On the first day of the experiment, Jane told her students that blue eyed people were better than brown eyed people. There were many stipulations throughout that day. Blue eyed students got extra recess, were allowed to use the water fountain, and got to go first to lunch. The brown eyed students could not intermingle with the blue eye students, had to use paper cups to get a drink, and were not allowed to get seconds at lunch. At the end of this day, the brown eyed students said that day was the worst day and that they felt horrible. The second day, the roles were reversed and brown eyed students were better than blue eyes students. The same conditions stood, and by the end of the day, the blue eyed students felt just as bad as their brown eyed peers felt the day before. One blue eyed student even remarked that it “Felt like you are chained up.” These students truly went through a day in the life of a

The original purpose of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to address the rising amount of healthcare cost in the United States, and substantially increase the amount of Americans insured with access to affordable healthcare. The ACA allows for the expansion of Medicaid; the government health insurance program, which is designed to increase enrollees for low income families in Medicaid. With this new legislation people who are under the age of 65 who are at or below 133 percent of the poverty line will have access to Medicaid. Anyone who earns below 400 percent of the poverty line will qualify for subsidies for health insurance. (Cockburn, 7) Americans who earn above this level must either buy insurance, or use their employer’s coverage. This is a huge implication because the estimated of new enrollees in 2014 estimated by the Congressional Budget Office is between 16 and 17 million. The federal government has agreed to finance this expansion of Medicaid for the first three years of implementation, for states that agree to the program. After these three years the states will have to start to pay a small portion of Medicaid. Many people with substance abuse problems, and mental disorders without insurance, are low income earning childless adults. (Bainbridge, 5)Under the ACA these Americans now have access to behavioral health treatment, in the 26

In The Bluest Eye, characters experience a variety of oppressive , that give rise to the never ending cycle of victimization in both the families and neighborhood. Throughout the novel, the black community accepts white beauty ideals, for example, judging Maureen’s light skin to be highly attractive in comparison to Pecola’s darker features. Racism is also apparent in other indirect ways. There is a general sense of worthlessness that certain colored characters subconsciously integrate into their daily lives, even without the constant reminder of their apparent “ugliness”. For example, “the Breedloves did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at the plant. They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed they were ugly.

In the article, “ Blue eyes, brown eyes: What Jane Elliott’s famous exercise says about race 50 years on” Karina Bland talks about Jane Elliott’s steps toward ending racial discrimination amongst people. According to Bland one of Elliotts ways was, “She divided the children [in her class], who were all white, by eye color, and then she told the children that people with brown eyes were smarter, faster, and better than those with blue eyes.” Bland later stated that, “ The change was instant, Elliott said. The children with brown eyes were suddenly more confident - and condescending. They hurled nasty insults at the blue-eyed kids.”

In Jane Elliot's Blue/ Brown Eyes experiment, what was shown a lot in this video was discrimination. The reason being is because half the kids were getting treated unfairly than the other half of the kids in the class because of the color of their eyes. They were getting bullied by people with the "superior" eyes, they got longer recesses, and they were allowed to get seconds for lunch. Discrimination is all about action and the unequal, unjust, and unfair treatment that discrimination entails is getting put into action against these kids. Racism also plays a part in this even though the kids were all of the same race.

This video presents a social experiment on discrimination. A teacher, Jane Elliot, used eye color as a means of separation. The documentary presents an experiment being conducted by Elliot in a 3rd-grade classroom and then in a correctional facility. Elliot was inspired by the discussion surrounding Martin Luther King and race. She was deeply bothered by the references made by news commentators, which clearly looked down upon blacks.

School teacher Jane Elliot is famous for the blue-eye/brown-eye experiment that allowed her third grade students to empathize with the oppressed. Her first experiment began on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., to show her third-graders what it was like to be segregated and discriminated against simply for the color of their eyes. Her experiment outraged many, but deeply impacted those involved. She went on to perform the

In the classroom the blue-eyed students were more attentive, acted orderly and were more energetic during recess, all behavior influenced by the symbolic gesture of superiority based on eye

The clouds blocked the beaming sun from reaching the inside of the cornucopia in which my cousins all smiled and posed. Some of them were kneeling, others standing behind them. All of them seemed to be having a good time together. Then there was little me in the background wearing my pink summer dress with my little red, yellow and blue backpack dangling from my shoulders. I stood with my arms folded in front of me; a glare beamed from my face in the direction of the camera. My sassy attitude seems to have no affect on my cousins. It was the day of our annual family trip to Chicago. A day filled with family fun, Garrett's popcorn, and walks through Chicago’s many parks. These family-fun packed trips have dwindled from being anual to being non-existent as everyone grew up.

On the first day of the experiment, the blue-eyed children, or the in-group, were told they were superior to the brown eyed children, the out-group. On top of being told they were better and smarter than the brown-eyed children, the out-group was not allowed to drink from the same fountain, play together at recess, or go back for seconds at lunch-time. The brown eyed children received less recess time, had to wait to go to lunch, and wore collars for easy recognition.