Amiri Baraka’s ritual theater represents the irreconcilable antagonism and antithesis between black and white in the hostile racial climate in the 1960s. Dutchman uses ritual violence to purge black society of whiteness and black accomplices as well. By presenting a sacrificial ritual on the stage, Baraka leads his audience to raise their consciousness and participate in the Black Revolution. Clay who has a mimetic desire for whiteness becomes a scapegoat, a victim of racism. According to Rene Girard, mimetic conflict ends in a sacrificial ritual to rid the community of violence. Clay’s Girardian mimetic desire can also be understood in terms of Homi Bhabha’s mimicry which poses a threat to hegemonic discourse. Clay is a victim who, nevertheless, contains a seed for regeneration through ritual. Baraka’s concept of ritual is similar to that of Antonin Artaud’s as used in his Theater of Cruelty in that they both pursue transformation through communal consciousness. Baraka’s Black Revolutionary Theater paves the way for the rebuilding of a black nation with his politics of ritual unlocking the door for stronger political potential and richer experimentation. (Kyungpook National University)