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Jane Elliott Against the World: Authority, Bias and the Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes Experiment - Couverture souple

Fuquay, Randall

 
9798245666525: Jane Elliott Against the World: Authority, Bias and the Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes Experiment
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ISBN 13 : 9798245666525
Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

What happens when a single teacher refuses to soften the truth? In a quiet Midwestern classroom, Jane Elliott conducted an experiment that would outlive her career, fracture public opinion, and force generations to confront an uncomfortable reality about inequality, authority, and human behavior. What began as a lesson for children became one of the most controversial educational experiments in modern history; praised as transformative, condemned as unethical, and never fully resolved.
Jane Elliott Against the World goes beyond the familiar headlines to explore the woman behind the experiment: her upbringing, her temperament, her moral rigidity, and the personal cost of refusing to apologize for revealing how easily discrimination is learned. This book traces the origins, impact, and backlash of the Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes experiment, situating it within psychology, education, and a society deeply resistant to discomfort.
This is not a feel-good story. It is a forensic examination of obedience, silence, and the systems that train ordinary people to participate in injustice, often without malice, and almost always without reflection. Unflinching, deeply researched, and relentlessly human, this book asks not whether the experiment was comfortable, but whether it was necessary.
If you’ve ever wondered how discrimination is learned, why authority shapes morality, or what it costs to tell the truth too early, this book is for you. Read it with an open mind. Sit with the discomfort. Decide for yourself.

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Éditeur
Independently published
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798245666525
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
73
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