negritude

Definitions

The fact of being of black African descent, especially a conscious pride in the values, cultural identity etc. of African heritage; blackness.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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.”

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

“Another important thing about “CLR,” as he was known in our little movement, was his disdainful opposition to any Third World fetishism or half-baked negritude.”

CEFR level