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Whistling Vivaldi

How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do

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Whistling Vivaldi

By: Claude M. Steele
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The acclaimed social psychologist offers an insider’s look at his research and groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity.

Claude M. Steele, who has been called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American social phenomena from racial and gender gaps in test scores to the belief in the superior athletic prowess of black men, and lays out a plan for mitigating these “stereotype threats” and reshaping American identities.

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Groundbreaking Research • Accessible Explanations • Beautiful Voice • Scientific Evidence • Actionable Information

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This book is an excellent look at stereotype threat - the awareness (subconscious and conscious) that we may be judged by stereotypes. Steele does an excellent job of pointing out how stereotypes influence all groups, and the physical and psychological measurable impacts that these stereotypes have on our daily lives.

Social Psychological Look at Stereotype Threat

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The book offers a more humane, hopeful, and scientifically grounded approach than critical race theory to solving the racial education achievement gap in the USA. Caveat: The book is more than 10 years old, I have not looked into how well the research has held up in more recent studies.

a better approach to race and education

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The prospectives shared are ones that illuminated complicated issues for which I had little understanding about how they are manifested and have been studied. Very enlightening.

Enlightening

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Everyone who make decisions about education needs to read this book … whether they are in direct contact with black and brown students or not. Steele shows the collective impact of stereotype threats on most groups not just Black people. Powerful.

I teach the children he writes about!

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This is one of the most insightful books I have read in a while. The rigour of the research methodologies to answer really important questions is just wonderfully set out in this book.

The answers and findings are so spot on AND translates so easily to the rest of the world.

Very Insightful

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