Wide Eyed: Resource Guide
In 1968, in response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a third grade teacher, Ms. Jane Elliott, in all-white, all-Christian, Riceville, Iowa, involved her students in an exercise in discrimination based on eye color. It was her attempt to help them to understand some of the reasons why Black people were taking to the streets and demanding equitable treatment with whites.
Since then she has conducted the same exercise with people of all ages in cities all
over the United States and in several other countries.
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In The Eye of the Storm: Guide
In The Eye of the Storm a classroom situation is deliberately created to teach third graders how it feels to be on the receiving end of discrimination.
This documentary explores the nature or prejudice in a dramatic third-grade classroom experiment conducted in a small Midwestern town in the United States - a town without Ghettos, blacks or campus unrest. It demonstrates how quickly wholesome, friendly schoolchildren can be infected with ugly virus of discrimination that leads to frustration, broken friendships and vicious behavior.
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A Class Divided: Resource Guide
A Class Divided is the classic documentary on third-grade teacher Jane Elliott’s blue eyes/brown eyes exercise, originally conducted in the days following the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. This guide is designed to help you use the film to engage participants in reflection and dialogue about the historical role of racism in the United States, as well as the role of prejudice and stereotyping in participants’ lives today
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The Complete Blue Eyed: Resource Guide
Diversity is a hot topic in corporations, government agencies, schools and communities today. While equity, justice and opportunity have been problematic since the founding of this country, discussion of these issues was transformed in the early 1990s when demographers projected increasingly dramatic population shifts.
Immigration is increasing, with more and more people coming from Latin America and Asia than from Europe as in the past. Women are returning to the workforce in increasing numbers. People with disabilities and lesbians and gay men are demanding to be recognized and accepted, not stigmatized. The population is getting older. And U.S.-born people of color continue to press for full participation in all aspects of American society.
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The Angry Eye: Resource Guide
Jane Elliott was a third grade teacher in Riceville, Iowa when she developed the blue eyed/brown eyed exercise to teach the effects of racism. She began this work in response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Featured in television documentaries and training videos, Ms. Elliott has since repeated the exercise with dramatic results in many different settings.
An internationally known teacher and lecturer on diversity issues, Ms. Elliott is the recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education of The Christine Wilson Medal for Equality and Justice.
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The Stolen Eye: Resource Guide
America's foremost diversity educator, Jane Elliott, conducted her world-famous blue eyed/brown eyed exercise in discrimination in Australia with the whites and Aborigines. Watch the astonishing and thoughtful results of this exercise.
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Eye Opener: Resource Guide
‘Eye Opener’ is a very powerful tool in helping people to understand the impact power inequalities have on us all, the systematic way racism operates in society and to consider ways to challenge it. Facilitating training sessions about racism and other equity issues can be very challenging as participants come with a range of views and may have strong emotions about the topics raised. Others may have personal experience of being discriminated against or treated unfairly and seeing ‘Eye Opener’ may remind them of a painful past.
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Indencently Exposed: Resource Guide
Filmed in Regina, Sask., Indecently Exposed illustrates and exposes how systematic racism continues to thrive in Canada today.
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