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

Essay

"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.
-How does stereotypical threat impair the standardized test performance of domain-identified students?