Jane Elliott
Birthday: 1933-11-30
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Biography: American diversity educator. As a schoolteacher, Jane Elliott became known for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise, which she first conducted with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The classroom exercise was filmed in 1970, becoming the documentary The Eye of the Storm. PBS series Frontline featured a reunion of the 1970 class, as well as Elliott's work with adults, in its 1985 episode "A Class Divided".
Movies
The Event: How Racist Are You?
Are we more racist than we realise? Former teacher Jane Elliot recreates her controversial exercise,...
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The Stolen Eye
Jane Elliott brings her brown-eye/blue-eye diversity training to Australia, where she explores racis...
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Blue Eyed
In only 15 minutes with some 30 people Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of s...
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The Eye of the Storm
The very first documentary about Jane Elliott's educational experiment about discrimination, which w...
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A Class Divided
William Peters follows up on the 1970 TV documentary Eye of the Storm about Jane Elliott's experimen...
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Indecently Exposed!
“Even nice Canadians are racist…” That's Jane Elliott’s starting point as she welcomes and bullies 2...
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Eye Opener
Jane Elliott, an internationally acclaimed diversity champion, conducts her Blue-eyed, Brown-eyed Ex...
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The Angry Eye
This documentary shows Jane Elliott's blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment set in a college environment w...
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Der Rassist in uns
39 people have agreed to participate in a self-experiment, without knowing exactly what to expect. I...
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