Negrituden.
/ˈnɛɡrᵻtjuːd/, /ˈnɛɡrᵻtʃuːd/, /ˈniːɡrᵻtjuːd/, /ˈniːɡrᵻtʃuːd/, U.S. /ˈnɛɡrəˌt(j)ud/, /ˈniɡrəˌt(j)ud/ The fact or quality of being of black African origin; spec. the affirmation or consciousness of the value of black culture, esp. of a collective African heritage and identity; the cultural and political movement based on this.The idea grew out of the meeting of French-speaking African and Caribbean intellectuals in Paris in the 1930s, most notably the Martiniquan poet, Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), who coined the term, and the Senegalese poet, Léopold Senghor (1906–2001), who was president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980 and became the central figure in the movement.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] > race or blood
tar-brush1796
niggerism1844
Negroness1937
Negritude1949
Negrohood1962
1949 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 34 239 This does not mean that they have imitated the form or the content of North American Negro poetry, but a similarity of tone, of aspiration, of ‘négritude,’ will be apparent to readers of both anthologies.
1960 Observer 20 Nov. 7/1 A movement for what French Pan-Africanists call ‘Negritude’—the recognition of the Negro personality in world civilisation.
1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Aug. 596/4 The recent African Writers Conference..was significant for its hostility to négritude.
1969 N. Hare in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 435 The debate was kicked off by leading Negritude theoretician, Leopold Senghor.
1971 Black Scholar Apr. 8 The laws and order of this nation are contrary to the black man's nature, contrary to our Negritude.
1988 Weekend Tel. 27 Aug. p. viii/7 The values of Negritude were therefore as much political as they were artistic.
2001 Book Jan. 25/1 I read Mallarmé, Neruda,..and some of the negritude poets, especially people who were writing French and later translated into English.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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