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An ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms
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negritude
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Négritude is a literary and ideological philosophy, developed by francophone African intellectuals, writers, and politicians in France during the 1930s. Its initiators included Martinican poet Aimé Césaire , Léopold Sédar Senghor (a future President of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1950, from French négritude ; see negro + -tude . Supposedly coined by young authors in the French colonies of Africa before World War II.
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The fact of being of black African descent, especially a conscious pride in the values, cultural identity etc. of African heritage; blackness. (from 20th c.)
Usage examples of negritude.
Along with Leopold Sedar Senghor, the president of Senegal, they were founders of the Negritude movement, which protested French colonial rule.
I guess getting enthralled with negritude still beats self-reflection every time, huh?
The ones from these islands, with the appalling tradition of servitude and negritude in which they are kept pinned by a benevolent French administration, when good are very good: they have to be.
Or maybe about the fact that for most Westerners this name apotheosizes a standard of feminine beauty having nothing to do with my lady's primeval negritude.