Interestingly, when black students expected to take a test of ability, they tended to spurn things black, reporting less interest in, for instance, basketball, jazz, and hip-hop than white students. But when the test was presented as unrelated to ability, black students strongly preferred things black. They seemed to be eschewing these things when preferring them would have encouraged a stereotypical view of themselves. It was the spotlight of the negative group stereotype they were avoiding.
