negritude

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French (deprecated template usage) négritude, from (deprecated template usage) nègre + (deprecated template usage) -tude

Noun

negritude (uncountable)

1. Consciousness of or pride in Black or Black African culture.
2. State of being black-skinned or of black African descent.

Quotations

• 1969, Richard A. Long, Perspective: Negritude in Black World/Negro Digest, May 1969, Johnson Publishing, page 11:

  Negritude is not wearing turbans and fezzes, though these may be quite alluring.

• 1976, Dorothy S. Blair, African literature in French: a history of creative writing in French from west and equatorial Africa, ISBN 9780521211956, CUP Archive, page 144:

  Long before Negritude had become a war-cry among the Black intellectuals of the Left Bank, Caribbean writers had been composing verses in French that were purely derivative, evoking the Parnassian and neo-Romantic influences of the end of the last century.

• 2005, Gaurav Gajanan Desai, Supriya Nair, Postcolonialisms: an anthology of cultural theory and criticism, ISBN 9780813535524, Rutgers University Press, page 185:

  In order to explain this morality in action of negritude, I must go back a little.