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
Since then, smarting from some first-degree burn of the soul, he has spent his time advocating negritude and nihilism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lit by these neglected lamps, the black man's mirrored image takes on a new dimension � a dimension that both enhances the particularity of "negritude" and celebrates a human communality of relevance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pope Paul went even further, telling the bishops on his arrival that they could give the Church "the precious and original contribution of negritude which she needs particularly."
From Time Magazine Archive
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