![]() “With its emphasis on race, identity and the effects of stereotypes on behavior and performance, Steele’s remarkable book should generate meaningful discussions of race and difference,” said 2014-15 One Book faculty chair Harvey Young. It also points to evidence that often small, feasible interventions can reduce these threats and dramatically narrow the racial and gender achievement gaps that, in Steele’s words, so discouragingly characterize our society. “Whistling Vivaldi” is about the experience of living under the cloud of the stereotype threat and the role such threats play in shaping individuals’ lives and society. And that stress distracts them from the task at hand and, in turn, from completing the task to the best of their ability. In experiment after experiment, Steele has found that people’s fears of confirming a negative stereotype - that white men can’t jump, that African Americans are intellectually inferior or that females can’t do high-level math - cause stress. ![]() The “stereotype threat” occurs when a person is in a situation that evokes negative stereotypes about the group to which he or she belongs. What “Whistling Vivaldi’s” author finds instructive about Staples’ story is its illustration of the power of what Steele, in decades of research, has dubbed the “stereotype threat.” And Steele by no means suggests that the targets of negative stereotypes adopt the culture of those who stereotype them. In a single stroke, Steele writes, Staples successfully distanced himself from the stereotype of the violence-prone black man and relieved both his own discomfort and that of people he passed.īut such a strategy comes at a price. He would whistle Vivaldi’s Four Seasons or Beatles’ tunes as he walked at night. To countervail the stereotype of African-American males as prone to violence, Staples adopted an unusual strategy. “Couples locked arms or reached for each other’s hand when they saw me,” he wrote. It takes its unusual name from a story told to the author by Brent Staples, an African-American journalist who writes for The New York Times.Īs a graduate student walking at night in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, Staples came to realize he was a source of distress for many of the white people he passed. “Whistling Vivaldi” is a summary of Steele’s groundbreaking research on group identity and the ways in which stereotypes can undermine the performance of the people they target. To enhance programming around the 2014-15 One Book selection and its themes, Northwestern has joined the YWCA Evanston/North Shore and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in presenting a widely praised traveling exhibition on race and identity titled “RACE: Are We So Different?” Norton’s “Issues of Our Time” series of books by leading thinkers exploring ideas that matter in the new millennium. The One Book initiative is the University’s community reading program.Ī highly readable, first-person account, “Whistling Vivaldi” by Claude Steele was published in 2010 as part of publisher W.W. 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.How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do” by one of the nation’s preeminent social psychologists has been chosen as the 2014-15 One Book One Northwestern University selection. ![]() 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. The acclaimed social psychologist offers an insider’s look at his research and groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity.Claude M. Table of ContentsChapter 1: At the root of identit圜hapter 2: A mysterious link between identity and intellectual performanceChapter 3: Stereotype threat comes to light, and in more than one group Chapter 4: A broader view of identity: in the lives of Anatole Broyard, Amin Maalouf, and the rest of us Chapter 5:The many experiences of stereotype threat Chapter 6: Identity threat and the efforting life Chapter 7: The mind on stereotype threat: racing and overloaded Chapter 8: The strength of stereotype threat : the role of cues Chapter 9: Reducing identity and stereotype threat: a new hope Chapter 10: The distance between us: the role of identity threat Chapter 11: Identity as a bridge between us (IMPRINT)Ĥ40 # - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY-TITLE Whistling Vivaldi: how stereotypes affect us and what we can doĢ60 # - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS-GENERAL INFORMATIONĠ20 # - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBERĠ82 # - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
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