ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the nature and function of the prejudice and it explains some of its psychological features. A prejudice is a composite of stereotypes, myths, and legends in which a group label or symbol is used to classify, characterize, and define an individual or a group considered as a totality. In other words, prejudice is a specific expression of basic conflict between in-group and out-group. The conflict may take place between nations, classes, races, religions, economic groups, or any other human associations which come into sharp opposition with each other. The roots of conflict, aggression, and prejudice are found in the manner in which the individual's basic and primary motives or drives are blocked, qualified, directed, and later used by culturally acquired responses. The means used by Negroes to adjust themselves to their caste like status are varied and many and they have bearing on both inter-Negro and white-Negro relations.
