negritude

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛɡɹɪtjuːd/

negritude (countable and uncountable, plural negritudes)

1. The fact of being of black African descent, especially a conscious pride in the values, cultural identity etc. of African heritage; blackness. [from 20th c.]
   • 1969, Richard A. Long, Perspective: Negritude in Black World/Negro Digest, May 1969, Johnson Publishing, page 11:

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

   • 1976, Dorothy S. Blair, African literature in French: a history of creative writing in French from west and equatorial Africa, →ISBN, CUP Archive, page 144:

     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.

   • 2005, Gaurav Gajanan Desai, Supriya Nair, Postcolonialisms: an anthology of cultural theory and criticism, →ISBN, Rutgers University Press, page 185:

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

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 91:

     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.

• Rhymes: -udʒi

negritude f (plural negritudes)

1. negritude (the characteristic of being of black African descent)
2. blackness (the characteristic of being black in colour)

• negro