SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Jane Elliot
28 Nov 2014
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Chapter 15 video: anatomy of prejudice- jane elloitt"s seminar on race. Jane elliot ran as exercise for 30 years based on racism and white societies: brought her methods to modern britain. Jane devised her controversial exercise when she was a school teacher in a racially segregated america. Jane wanted her students to understand how it felt to be discriminated based on skin colour which they had no control over: also wanted them to understand why martin luther king jr was in the streets. Jane had no idea that just 15 minutes of discrimination to one of her very brilliant students (blue eyed) could influence her that much: jane had no idea because: Her #1 freedom in the us as a white woman is the freedom to be totally ignorant about those who are different from herself. Her #2 freedom is the freedom to deny that she"s ignorant.
