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Based on the Nation of Islam's Yakub doctrine, the play depicts Jacoub creating the White Beast, progenitor of white people. Baraka's action literature uses music, lighting, audience-engulfing performance and the work's inversion of racial symbolism to raise Black political consciousness.
On a New York subway, the flirtatious encounter between Clay, a young Black man, and Lula, a white woman, turns into a confrontation over race and identity, ending in Clay’s murder as the cycle appears poised to repeat.
Based on the Nation of Islam's Yakub doctrine, the play depicts Jacoub creating the White Beast, progenitor of white people. Baraka's action literature uses music, lighting, audience-engulfing performance and the work's inversion of racial symbolism to raise Black political consciousness.
On a New York subway, the flirtatious encounter between Clay, a young Black man, and Lula, a white woman, turns into a confrontation over race and identity, ending in Clay’s murder as the cycle appears poised to repeat.