The Civil Rights Struggle for Freedom and Equality in America: Amiri Baraka's Dutchman and The Slave

This book deals with the civil rights struggle for freedom and equality in the 1950s and the 1960s in America. It is based on a study of Dutchman and The Slave, two famous plays of the African- American activist Amiri Baraka (Le Roi Jones); he is a writer of the Black Arts Movement. In essence, our choice of analyzing Baraka´s plays is deliberate since they belong to The Revolutionary Theater that calls for change. Throughout the two plays, Baraka explores a number of race themes presenting the two plays timeless on the subject of the race conflict. The two plays depict, in fact, the tragic contradictions of its central characters asserting their victimization.