Whistling Vivaldi
Subtitle: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
By: Claude M. Steele.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Issues of our time
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780393062496
Subjects: Stereotypes (Social psychology); Group identity; Discrimination
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A surprising connection between identity and performance; title: Can stereotypes impair performance in more than one group, and in the strongest among them?; title: Contingencies of threat: in the lives of Anatole Broyard and Amin Maalouf, and in our own lives; title: Stereotype threat in everyone's life; title: The efforting life; title: The racing mind; or, the mind on stereotype threat; title: It's the cues that determine the strength of identity threat; title: Reducing identity threat in college; title: The distance between us: what causes it and how to bridge it.