What is Intergroup Relations

Historically, the racialized members of the society, which include Black people, face different forms of prejudices and stereotypes due to conscious and unconscious attitudes or behaviors that stem from social discrimination, also known as microaggression. The society is known for its use of racial categorization to classify individuals based on their personal characteristics such as skin color. As such, people's racialized identity determines the way they are socially perceived, socially accepted, and the form of social relations they will receive from the dominance. This study uses the social dominant theory, social dominance orientation theory, and racial battle fatigue theory to examine how the minoritized individuals, in general, continue to face different forms of conscious and unconscious derogatory attitudes from other races due to their racialized identity. This study uses secondary data from the Project Implicit.org from Harvard University implicit bias dataset to examine if there is any difference in the ways one feels (either warm or cold).