This essay takes racism and race relations as a central theme, with a focus on Amiri Baraka’s “Dutchman.” In recognizing Amiri Baraka’s celebrated One-Act Play, “Dutchman” as, not a tragedy as normally conceived, but as a sacrifice ritual, this essay breaks dividing lines in dramatic genres by recognizing Artaudian Cruelty in the incitement of emotions associated with the Protest Play against the traditional model of the “purging” of emotions of pity and fear associated with Tragedy....