negritude

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈnɛɡɹɪˌt͡ʃuːd/
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/ˈnɛɡɹɪˌt͡ʃuːd/ · /ˈnɛɡɹɪˌtjuːd/

Definition of negritude

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The fact of being of black African descent, especially a conscious pride in the values, cultural identity etc. of African heritage; blackness.
    “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.”

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Etymology

From French négritude (coined by Aimé Césaire), from nègre (“Negro”) + -itude.

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