![]() ![]() At the time, Steele became aware of a large “achievement gap” between white and black students at the university. Steele began researching the impact of stereotypes on behavior in the 1980s, when he was beginning his career as a professor at the University of Michigan. For more than twenty years, Steele has conducted psychological research suggesting that the mere threat of a stereotype is so powerful that it can change human behavior. Human beings judge one another according to their identities-not just their race but their class, their age, their health, etc. ![]() It’s significant, Steele argues, that he first became aware of his own race while being treated negatively-being turned away from a swimming pool on a hot day. Steele tried to get into a public swimming pool, but was told that the pool was only open to white people that day. ![]() He begins by recalling his childhood in 1950s Chicago, and the day when he first truly became aware that he was black. In Whistling Vivaldi, Claude Steele describes the powerful role that stereotypes play in human behavior. ![]()
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