Summary

In “Brown Eyes verses Blue Eyes,” American teacher Jane Elliot does a caste exercise with her dominant caste students to teach them about being judged based on arbitrary physical features. She tells her students that all the children with brown eyes are inferior, and notices their other classmates be hurtful to them and the brown eyed students’ performance drop. She then switches the “castes” and noticed the same patterns of behavior with the inferior and superior group.

In Chapter 10, Wilkerson describes going to London for a caste conference in December 2017, when she began being very interested in the subject. She makes a friend in Tushar, a man born in Bengal and living in London. He tells her he was born to the second highest caste and that from an early age he felt the system was unjust. He asks Wilkerson where she...