Through dramatic personal stories, Claude Steele shares the
experiments and studies that show, again and again, that exposing
subjects to stereotypes--merely reminding a group of female math
majors about to take a math test, for example, that women are
considered naturally inferior to men at math--impairs their
performance in the area affected by the stereotype. Steele's
conclusions shed new light on a host of American social phenomena,
from the racial and gender gaps in standardized test scores to the
belief in the superior athletic prowess of black men. Steele
explicates the dilemmas that arise in every American's life around
issues of identity, from the white student whose grades drop
steadily in his African American Studies class to the female
engineering students deciding whether or not to attend
predominantly male professional conferences. Whistling Vivaldi
offers insight into how we form our senses of identity and
ultimately lays out a plan for mitigating the negative effects of
"stereotype threat" and reshaping American identities.
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