Description: "Churn offers a way forward for anyone seeking to foster trust and build community during a time of seemingly insurmountable group divides." --Jennifer Richeson, Yale University
Brief description: Claude M. Steele is an American social psychologist and the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Emeritus, at Stanford University. The author of Whistling Vivaldi, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He lives in California.
Review Quotes: Steele, a social psychologist and bestselling author of Whistling Vivaldi, delivers a captivating follow-up to that volume's groundbreaking scholarship on the psychology of stereotypes.... Drawing on his own and others' scholarship and a host of case studies, he makes a powerful argument for 'trust' as the fundamental missing element both to diversity efforts and in American society at large. The methods he recommends are built around instructive questioning and listening to others, and tend to propose offering practical, concrete assistance to others as a show of 'good faith'--or, as he pithily admonishes: 'Render real help.' It adds up to an elegant, concise, and moving suggestion that a little kindness would go a very long way.--Publishers Weekly, starred review