What If Coleman Had Known About Stereotype Threat? How Social-Psychological Theory Can Help Mitigate Educational Inequality

Geoffrey D. Borman; Jaymes Pyne

doi:10.7758/RSF.2016.2.5.08

Article Information

vol. 2 no. 5 164-185

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.5.08

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online September 1, 2016.

Copyright © 2016 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Reproduction by the United States Government in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose. Research on this paper was supported by grants from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (R305A110136 and R305C050055) and the Spencer Foundation (201500044). Findings and conclusions are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the supporting agencies. Direct correspondence to: Geoffrey D. Borman at geoffrey.borman@wisc.edu, School of Education, 348 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall, Madison, WI 53706-1326; and Jaymes Pyne at jpyne@wisc.edu. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Geoffrey D. Borman^a and
Jaymes Pyne^b

^aVilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Education Policy and Sociology and director of the Interdisciplinary Training Program (ITP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
^bAdvanced doctoral student in the Sociology Department and fellow of the ITP at the University of Wisconsin–Madison