Negritude

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

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.

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.