SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: A Class Divided, Jane Elliot, Nigger
29 Nov 2016
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Starts talking to third graders about society isolating black people and minorities. What harms could"ve been done to children. Iowa, third grade teacher, (cid:498)time to deal with this in a concrete way not just to talk about it(cid:499) (cid:498)negros and niggers(cid:499)-decides to judge people by the colour of their. Blue-eyed people are the better people in this room, they"re better than. Reinforcements. (cid:498)blue eyed people get extra time for recess, brown can play with blue eyes people(cid:499) their classmates. They take offence to the term (cid:498)brown eyed(cid:499). One kid points out that being called (cid:498)brown eyes(cid:499) is like calling a black person (cid:498)nigger(cid:499) Brown eyed people are actually superior compared to blue eyed people(cid:499) Blue-eyed kids now understand that they are superior and take advantage of the treatment they now receive. Brown eyed kids, start to feel less important and more isolated from. Innocent caring children into vicious discriminating people within 30 mins.
