Whistling Vivaldi

The book gets its title from a story a black New York Times writer, Brent Staples, told Steele about how he ad to whistle Vivaldi anytime he walked on the streets of Hyde Park a suburb of sugar so he wouldnt look violent to the dominantly white people who lived on that part. Staples who knew he had a social indistinguishability because he was black employ the whistling to steer through that part of his daily life.Identity contingencies are the things you set out to deal with in a particular because you have a precondition social identity. Stereotype threat in the book, from my understanding can gum olibanum be defined as when a person finds himself/herself in situation or circumstance where his or her performance/behavior consciously or unconsciously is affected usually by negative stereotypes.A typical exemplar was the Golf try out in the book where Jeff stone and his team apply typical stereotypes about whites been less naturally athletic than blacks and blacks been less tidy than whites as the experimental variables was able to prove how the performance of the white students at Princeton University was reduced when they were told they were been tested or their natural athletic ability and how the same thing happened to the black students when they were told they were been tested for their sports strategic intelligence.The 2nd experiment Steele describes was the experiment in which a third grade driller Jane Elliot trying to teach her students the importance of the life and works of Dry Martin Luther King identified gist color as the basis Of been smarter, cleaner and been well behaved. This experiment exemplified how an identity and stereotype affects a persons way of thinking and ability.