Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An aesthetic and ideological concept affirming the independent nature, quality, and validity of black culture.
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- noun an ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms; an affirmation of the African cultural heritage
Etymologies
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Examples
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Concepts such as the African personality, Pan-Africanism, and what is now called negritude owed their early development to the stimulus of Edward Wilmot Blyden.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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Concepts such as the African personality, Pan-Africanism, and what is now called negritude owed their early development to the stimulus of Edward Wilmot Blyden.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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Concepts such as the African personality, Pan-Africanism, and what is now called negritude owed their early development to the stimulus of Edward Wilmot Blyden.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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Even within what we could call "negritude" there are other interesting approaches - consider the numerous but rigid color classifications that (I believe) obtain in many Caribbean cultures (though I only personally and not-exhaustively know the French islands), with the very odd and small white planter class functioning as an almost unseen Platonic ideal of paleness - with the metropolitans being largely irrelevant.
The Kiss James Killus 2007
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As poet and philosopher, Mr. Senghor developed the concept of "negritude," his term for the common cultural and spiritual heritage of Africa's people.
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But some conservative whites connected with Angola fear UNITA because of the "negritude" it proclaims, in an attempt to sow resentment against the highly visible mestiço element in the MPLA bureaucracy.
Inside Angola Smiley, Xan 1983
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Francois Duvalier, an early believer in "negritude," came to power in the late 1950s, popularizing ideas that resonated with a population that had withstood a white foreign occupation for many years.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper 2010
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Francois Duvalier, an early believer in "negritude," came to power in the late 1950s, popularizing ideas that resonated with a population that had withstood a white foreign occupation for many years.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper 2010
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Francois Duvalier, an early believer in "negritude," came to power in the late 1950s, popularizing ideas that resonated with a population that had withstood a white foreign occupation for many years.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper By Jean Damu, Special to the Planet 2010
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He was a follower of Voodoo and the "negritude" (Black Nationalist) movement.
vanishedone commented on the word negritude
'Négritude is a term coined by the Senegalese poet Léopold Senghor, and which was enunciated in different ways in the mid-twentieth century by the likes of the West Indian poet Aimé Césaire and psychiatrist and writer Frantz Fanon, in his Black Skin, White Masks (1952).' - Colin Rhodes, Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives, p. 205
January 23, 2008