ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Negritude

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈnɛɡɹɪˌt͡ʃuːd/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Negritude is a noun meaning The fact of being of black African descent, especially a conscious pride in the values, cultural identity etc. of African heritage; blackness.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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

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Related dictionary entries include nigritude, blackness, black, blacknesse, niggerosity, nigrescence.

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