the fact of being a Negro
awareness and cultivation of the Negro heritage, values, and culture
See Black 1.
First recorded in 1945–50; from French négritude; see Negro , -i- , -tude
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Fanon’s thinking syncretizes intellectual movements of the time — from Negritude to Existentialism, as well as thoughts on clinical psychology and colonialism — giving them voice in a dramatic style: soaring, sermon-like, poetic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
They formed the Negritude movement, a movement to celebrate African culture, heritage, and values.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Used in this way, the soul concept becomes a mystique, a glorification of Negritude in all its manifestations.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Black is a burden bravely chanted," James Emanuel proclaims in a poem called "Negritude."
From Time Magazine Archive
But Beyoncé’s beacon is less Wagner than Duke Ellington, in that she composes a symphony in sound and movement and media and negritude.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 18, 2019
Each episode flows and skids among surrealistic short films, satirical sketches, animated fantasias, blurts of essayistic journalism, and blips of documentary, such that the season amounts to a confrontational art installation about blackness and negritude.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2018
He has never sought or wanted to be a symbol of negritude.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since then, smarting from some first-degree burn of the soul, he has spent his time advocating negritude and nihilism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Outsiders thought of Harlem as a night town of song, dance and an imperfectly understood negritude.
From Time Magazine Archive
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