--- product_id: 4482260 title: "Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time)" price: "₱1728" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/4482260-whistling-vivaldi-how-stereotypes-affect-us-and-what-we-can store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) **Price:** ₱1728 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) - **How much does it cost?** ₱1728 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/4482260-whistling-vivaldi-how-stereotypes-affect-us-and-what-we-can) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The acclaimed social psychologist offers an insider’s look at his research and groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity. Claude M. 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. 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. Review: The book has book jackets are like mini-reviews. It provides a summary of the book ... - Author: Claude M. Steele, PhD. What he published are the American Psychologist, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. No award. Genre: While this is a book of social science, it is somewhat of an autobiography of psychologist. This book is intended for stereotype people and how people react to them (especially black and white). The purpose of the work is Steele, a social psychologist and professor at Stanford University, summarizes a year of research on stereotype threat and its effect on minority student academic performance in “Whistling Vivaldi,” named for a social experiment conducted by Brent Staples, an African-American New York Times journalist. Title: Title comes from an African-American guy named Staples noticed that people who saw him on the street at night seemed to regard him as a potential threat. But when he whistled classical music, their apprehension seemed to diminish. It is very interesting book because the story is coming from a real-life situation. Title encapsulates the topic of the book. Preface/Introduction/Table of Contents: There is an introduction which provides revealing information about the text in the introduction. Henry Louis Gates introduces the book. Guest author provides some books and Whistling Vivaldi is just one of them. This book is a part of Issues of Our Time. The book has chapters. Book Jacket/Cover/Printing: The book has book jackets are like mini-reviews. It provides a summary of the book and there is also a quote. It gives us outstanding information about the book. When you read book jacket, it catches your attention to the book. There is a picture of the author. It contributes the work. Summary and Evaluation: The title of the book comes from the author’s experience. Steele describes of Brent Staples, who was a graduate student in Chicago. He is an African-American, observed white people and couples reacting to him with fear when they walked past him in the Hyde Park neighborhood. Staples noticed that when he whistled the tunes of musician Vivaldi, white people seemed like to relax and some of them even smiled at him. He was a stereotype of a potentially violence- African-American person. Staples overcame this threat for himself and the people who passed him with fear. The book talks about the identity threat that occurs when faced with a negative stereotype. The author gives us some remedies to reduce stereotype threat. There are some researches he has done on the students from different backgrounds. There are some strategies to apply them to the classroom. There will be positive environment. The most fascinating parts were on how identity threat could be reduced or eliminated. He made outstanding points obviously, but I can't help but feel that it was repetitive and that its facts were supported with evidence. I think that he spent too much time spending on exploring what identity threat was, while he was not exploring why personal identities or stereotypes are formed. On the other hand, sometimes he refers to people as things, but as a human being. This book separates everyone in a certain stereotype. The author writes in broad terms like "black" "white" "man" "woman" that he doesn't mention the fact that we are all just people after all. Also, there was a huge bias towards certain groups of people in this book. Steele and his colleagues think of stereotype threat, because of “the pressure of group stereotypes”; a pressure that comes into play when people’s “performance confirm a bad view of their group and of themselves, as members of that group” (p. 59). When we experience stereotype threat, we try to protect ourselves because of our instinct. Our brains are trying to disobey the stereotype and protect our image. Our performance might hurt. I certainly suggest this book to my colleagues because the book has experiments and researches about identity. This book is very interesting because it comes from a real-life story. Review: A must read for all educators and those interested in school reform... - Whistling Vivaldi And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us, the eagerly anticipated book by scholar Claude Steele is a must read for any educator, but it has implications that reach far beyond that domain. Like chicken soup for the soul of the critically thinking change maker, Whistling Vivaldi offers valuable new insights that will help to complicate our thinking and the frames we use to structure the discourse about the challenges of living in a diverse society. As we as a nation struggle to reap the promise of true democracy this seminal text by Dr. Steele can help us move beyond the well trodden paths of discussion that lead us to nowhere. In order to craft viable solutions to many of the vexing problems in education we need to transcend the orthodoxy of the left and the right in order reframe the conversation such that we can see the issues in a more complex framework than where they typically reside. While there are many generative frames presented in this book that are worthy of much conversation and reflection, the basic premise that "who" we are does matter is a simple but critical conceptual reframing of the classroom. Rather than stay tied to maladaptive coping strategies like "color blind" approaches to teaching, which assume that we all have the same experiences and that aspects of our identity such as "race" or gender among others are neutral categories, he suggests that we can take these into account and that by doing so we can create a more effective teaching environment for all students. This body of work also suggests that our national obsession with school reform tied to "standardized assessments" may indeed be misguided. While not and argument against assessment, this text suggest that these standardized measures may be only partial measures and may indeed serve as an impediment to many students moving forward in their educational trajectories. Perhaps, rather than funneling more resources into kill and drill test prep, taking time away from more meaningful instruction, or blaming children, the communities they come from or the teachers themselves for schools' failure, we might be better served by taking a step back and reconceptualizing what isn't working and asking new questions as to the "why." For those of us working in the trenches to improve the education of all children, I thank you for this valuable contribution; it's truly a breath of fresh air and a well needed reframing. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #29,514 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #26 in Sociology (Books) #103 in Discrimination & Racism #104 in Medical Social Psychology & Interactions | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,428 Reviews | ## Images ![Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51jIclc1bZL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The book has book jackets are like mini-reviews. It provides a summary of the book ... *by N***R on March 20, 2017* Author: Claude M. Steele, PhD. What he published are the American Psychologist, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. No award. Genre: While this is a book of social science, it is somewhat of an autobiography of psychologist. This book is intended for stereotype people and how people react to them (especially black and white). The purpose of the work is Steele, a social psychologist and professor at Stanford University, summarizes a year of research on stereotype threat and its effect on minority student academic performance in “Whistling Vivaldi,” named for a social experiment conducted by Brent Staples, an African-American New York Times journalist. Title: Title comes from an African-American guy named Staples noticed that people who saw him on the street at night seemed to regard him as a potential threat. But when he whistled classical music, their apprehension seemed to diminish. It is very interesting book because the story is coming from a real-life situation. Title encapsulates the topic of the book. Preface/Introduction/Table of Contents: There is an introduction which provides revealing information about the text in the introduction. Henry Louis Gates introduces the book. Guest author provides some books and Whistling Vivaldi is just one of them. This book is a part of Issues of Our Time. The book has chapters. Book Jacket/Cover/Printing: The book has book jackets are like mini-reviews. It provides a summary of the book and there is also a quote. It gives us outstanding information about the book. When you read book jacket, it catches your attention to the book. There is a picture of the author. It contributes the work. Summary and Evaluation: The title of the book comes from the author’s experience. Steele describes of Brent Staples, who was a graduate student in Chicago. He is an African-American, observed white people and couples reacting to him with fear when they walked past him in the Hyde Park neighborhood. Staples noticed that when he whistled the tunes of musician Vivaldi, white people seemed like to relax and some of them even smiled at him. He was a stereotype of a potentially violence- African-American person. Staples overcame this threat for himself and the people who passed him with fear. The book talks about the identity threat that occurs when faced with a negative stereotype. The author gives us some remedies to reduce stereotype threat. There are some researches he has done on the students from different backgrounds. There are some strategies to apply them to the classroom. There will be positive environment. The most fascinating parts were on how identity threat could be reduced or eliminated. He made outstanding points obviously, but I can't help but feel that it was repetitive and that its facts were supported with evidence. I think that he spent too much time spending on exploring what identity threat was, while he was not exploring why personal identities or stereotypes are formed. On the other hand, sometimes he refers to people as things, but as a human being. This book separates everyone in a certain stereotype. The author writes in broad terms like "black" "white" "man" "woman" that he doesn't mention the fact that we are all just people after all. Also, there was a huge bias towards certain groups of people in this book. Steele and his colleagues think of stereotype threat, because of “the pressure of group stereotypes”; a pressure that comes into play when people’s “performance confirm a bad view of their group and of themselves, as members of that group” (p. 59). When we experience stereotype threat, we try to protect ourselves because of our instinct. Our brains are trying to disobey the stereotype and protect our image. Our performance might hurt. I certainly suggest this book to my colleagues because the book has experiments and researches about identity. This book is very interesting because it comes from a real-life story. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A must read for all educators and those interested in school reform... *by M***S on April 27, 2010* Whistling Vivaldi And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us, the eagerly anticipated book by scholar Claude Steele is a must read for any educator, but it has implications that reach far beyond that domain. Like chicken soup for the soul of the critically thinking change maker, Whistling Vivaldi offers valuable new insights that will help to complicate our thinking and the frames we use to structure the discourse about the challenges of living in a diverse society. As we as a nation struggle to reap the promise of true democracy this seminal text by Dr. Steele can help us move beyond the well trodden paths of discussion that lead us to nowhere. In order to craft viable solutions to many of the vexing problems in education we need to transcend the orthodoxy of the left and the right in order reframe the conversation such that we can see the issues in a more complex framework than where they typically reside. While there are many generative frames presented in this book that are worthy of much conversation and reflection, the basic premise that "who" we are does matter is a simple but critical conceptual reframing of the classroom. Rather than stay tied to maladaptive coping strategies like "color blind" approaches to teaching, which assume that we all have the same experiences and that aspects of our identity such as "race" or gender among others are neutral categories, he suggests that we can take these into account and that by doing so we can create a more effective teaching environment for all students. This body of work also suggests that our national obsession with school reform tied to "standardized assessments" may indeed be misguided. While not and argument against assessment, this text suggest that these standardized measures may be only partial measures and may indeed serve as an impediment to many students moving forward in their educational trajectories. Perhaps, rather than funneling more resources into kill and drill test prep, taking time away from more meaningful instruction, or blaming children, the communities they come from or the teachers themselves for schools' failure, we might be better served by taking a step back and reconceptualizing what isn't working and asking new questions as to the "why." For those of us working in the trenches to improve the education of all children, I thank you for this valuable contribution; it's truly a breath of fresh air and a well needed reframing. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ intriguing read *by A***R on November 6, 2019* This is an interesting insight into the journey to understand what stereotype threat is. As someone very interested in anti-racist work, I sort of wish it was positioned with some other research around implicit and explicit bias, but I understand that is not the author's expertise. It is clear and simple prose - it makes the analysis and research component feel accessible to non academics. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ph/products/4482260-whistling-vivaldi-how-stereotypes-affect-us-and-what-we-can](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/4482260-whistling-vivaldi-how-stereotypes-affect-us-and-what-we-can) --- *Product available on Desertcart Philippines* *Store origin: PH* *Last updated: 2026-09-05*