"A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity

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"A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance" by Claude M. Steel
Steele discusses the dynamics of "stereotypical threat," which is the internalization of negative stereotypes that pose achievement barriers among women in advanced quantitative areas and blacks in school. The author discusses how identification with school and its subdivisions can produce inferior performance pursuant to societal pressures that make domain-identified students conscious and activate the stenotypes.
-One consequence of a "stereotypical threat" is that it causes de-identification.