NOUN
- an ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms; an affirmation of the African cultural heritage
How To Use Negritude In A Sentence
- While writing their own verses, kids read and listen to the poetry of Langston Hughes and Larry Neal, learning about the Harlem Renaissance, The Black Arts Movement and Negritude. Charles Howard: Ase: College Kids Remind Us That We Are All Educators
- He tirelessly promoted "Negritude" -- the common culture of black Africans -- and insisted that state stability was only possible with support from Western democracies. What Lives They Led
- Perhaps we can make sense of all the things that happen when race and the American mainstream collide by looking at them through an updated idea of negritude; Negritude 2.0, if you will.
- In the French-speaking territories, Negritude was another variant of Pan-Africanism.
- In fact, at Algiers, participants called for the demise of Negritude and the birth of national consciousness and arts.
- Artists working during the post-independence period pioneered an expressive genre of painting whose distinctive themes and styles were associated with the cultural ideology of Negritude and its promotion by President Senghor.
- Ima Ebong considers the massive importance of Leopold Sedar Senghor's Negritude for artists in Senegal since independence.
- Interpretations of this Ecole have tended to emphasize how the ideological tenets of Negritude determined its iconographic parameters and how the formal characteristics of European modernism informed its stylistic attributes.
- So we have big sections on Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, Negritude, and (because we're writing out of the United States) the ‘Objectivist’ poets as well.
- Some critics have commented on the apparent contradictions between his African socialism, with its egalitarian schemes of economic relief, and the philosophy of Negritude, with its lofty ideals of cultural uplift.