negritude means The fact of being of black African descent, especially a conscious pride in the values, cultural identity etc. of African heritage; blackness. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
Why this word is great
NEGRITUDE — [Noun] A conscious pride in the cultural identity, values, and heritage of people of black African descent, asserted as a philosophical and aesthetic principle. From French négritude, coined by Aimé Césaire, from nègre ("Negro, black person") + the suffix -itude (denoting a state or condition). Unlike Pan-Africanism, which maps a political project of continental solidarity, or assimilation, which implies a dissolution into a dominant culture, Negritude is the defiant reclamation and exaltation of a shared cultural soul. It is the percussive heartbeat beneath the colonial language of a Césaire poem, the sun-warmed pigment of a skin long maligned, and the ancestral rhythm surviving in the architecture of a blues note—a testament that the most profound resistance is the adamant refusal to be defined by absence.
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- The fact of being of black African descent, especially a conscious pride in the values, cultural identity etc. of African heritage; blackness.“Negritude is not wearing turbans and fezzes, though these may be quite alluring.”