Summary Of The Effect Of Racism By Jane Elliot

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In this experiment performed by Jane Elliot she shows a group of students the effect of racism by separating them by the color of their eyes. This exercise shows blue eyed, white students what African Americans go through on a daily basis. In this experiment Elliot places the blue eye students in a holding room and explains to the other students how to treat them. She states that they are going to act like the blue eyed students are incapable of learning and to refer to them as boy, chick, babe and to degrade them. Elliot did not make the idea to exclude people by the color of their eyes, she borrowed it from Adolf Hitler. When the blue eyed students were allowed in the room they were forced to sit in the middle of the classroom and not given

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