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It's White, then Black: Amiri Baraka's "Dutchman"


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In this week's episode, Amiri Baraka's "Dutchman" opens up a conversation about racial politics between Black men, White women and the American mythos that establishes a sordid violence between this pairing. Addressing uses of religious/spiritual/mythological allusions to highlight the tradition established within the racial hierarchy, I guess it's only inevitable to see the impending doom arriving at the onset of Lula setting her sights on Clay.

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