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93 minutes, 1995
Producers: Claus Strigel, Bertram Verhaag, Director: Bertram Verhaag
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"Top 10 Media Training Products of 1998"
Media Training Review
Blue Eyed offers viewers a chance to watch a full-length
workshop with America's most dynamic diversity trainer,
Jane Elliott.
"Other videos may have an impact equal to
Blue Eyed - maybe - but I can't imagine
any having the potential for a greater one."
Bill Ellett, Training Media Review
Elliott's exercise, initiated in 1968 as a ground breaking
experiment in anti-racist training, has been featured on
Today, the Tonight show, Donahue, Oprah, ABC News and
PBS' Frontline. Elliott believes, "Blue Eyed is by far the
most comprehensive and useful video on my work
available; it sums up 28 years of experience in schools,
universities and corporations."
Elliott contends that "A person who has been raised and
socialized in America has been conditioned to be a racist...
We live in two countries, one black and one white." In
contrast to the more usual encounter group strategy, the
feisty Elliott believes it's important for whites to experience
the emotional impact of discrimination for themselves.
In Blue Eyed, we join a group of 40 teachers, police,
school administrators and social workers in Kansas City blacks, Hispanics, whites, women and men. The blue-eyed
members are subjected to pseudo-scientific explanations of
their inferiority, culturally biased IQ tests and blatant
discrimination. In just a few hours under Elliott's withering
regime, we watch grown professionals become despondent
and distracted, stumbling over the simplest commands.
Jane Elliott's approach is especially relevant today. It
demonstrates irrefutably that even without juridical
discrimination, hate speech, lowered expectations and
dismissive behavior can have devastating effects on
minority achievement. Black members of the Blue-Eyed
group forcefully remind whites that they undergo similar
stresses, not just for a few hours in a controlled experiment,
but every day of their lives. And Elliott points out that
sexism, homophobia and ageism work in the same way.
"A terrific training tool to get dialogue
started in your organization."
Barbara Stern, Vice President, Diversity,
Harvard-Pilgrim Health Care
"Brava, Brava! Thanks to Jane Elliott we
may just have 800 more students who are
cognizant of the issue of racism on our
campus."
Joseph A. Oravecz, Jr., Central Michigan
University
"It is hard to find words to express the
effect of her message. One student
commented: 'I thought I had learned
everything I needed to know about
discrimination until I heard Ms. Elliott - she
has turned my life around.'"
Col. Ronald Joe, Former Commander
Defense Equal Opportunity Management
Institute
"A powerful experience! I can safely speak
for everyone here that we have all been
challenged by Jane Elliott to open our
eyes."
Karen J. Westryck, University of Findlay
"Perfect for our cultural diversity week.
Firmly attacked all the isms (racism,
sexism, ageism, heterosexism) and forced
those in our audience to realize how
prevalent these things are in our society
and campus."
Mark Koepsell, Milliken University
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Back at her Iowa home, Elliott reflects upon how the simple
classroom exercise she devised the day after Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr's assassination has transformed her life.
After her experiment got national television coverage, she
recalls, townspeople made threatening phone calls, beat
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and spit at her children and boycotted her parents' coffee
shop, eventually forcing it out of business.
Clips from her original classes and interviews with former
students confirm that Jane Elliott's workshops make them
permanently more empathetic and sensitive to the problem
of racism. Counselors, student program administrators,
corporate trainers and psychologists agree: Blue Eyed is a
film every American needs to experience.
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If Blue Eyed's 86 minute length is too long for your
program, check out the edited versions:
The Essential Blue Eyed (a 50 minute Trainer's Edition and
36 minute Debriefing) or The Thirty Minute Blue Eyed
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The Complete Blue Eyed
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