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countable and uncountable, plural negritudes
The fact of being of black African descent, especially a conscious pride in the values, cultural identity etc. of African heritage; blackness. quotations examples
Negritude is not wearing turbans and fezzes, though these may be quite alluring.
1969 May, Richard A. Long, “Perspective: Negritude”, in Black World/Negro Digest, Johnson Publishing, page 11
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.
1976, Dorothy S. Blair, African literature in French: a history of creative writing in French from west and equatorial Africa, CUP Archive, page 144
In order to explain this morality in action of negritude, I must go back a little.
2005, Gaurav Gajanan Desai, Supriya Nair, Postcolonialisms: an anthology of cultural theory and criticism, Rutgers University Press, page 185
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.
2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 91