Racial Prejudice and the Fear of the other in Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman

Abstract

This study focuses on the Racist Theory in Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman, a play that revealed how racial prejudice and fear impacted people's lifestyles in 1964. A modern stage and racial thinking interact to initialise the understanding of races and turn towards individual experiences. Baraka’s Dutchman focuses on the culture within white supremacy that has historically marginalised all other races by representing possible outcomes. This paper studies the work of Lula, who destroys the clay to symbolise the savage destruction of the white man for the cultural identity of black people. Furthermore, it displays the continuation of racial violence that has been rampant since the 1960s. This study registers racial thinking and modern stage interactions, and in doing so, the researcher has adopted a secondary qualitative data collection method. The entire process of this study has been conducted based on information collected from existing resources. Thus, this study is especially applicable for readers since it connects with prejudice and fear. Analysing several types of elements in racial prejudice based on Racist Theory, the result helps to provide a transparent viewpoint.