Négritude

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== 46. Négritude:
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—A theory of the distinctiveness of African personality and culture that was developed immediately before and after the second World War.

The concept of "negritude" implied that all people of Negro descent shared certain inalienable essential characteristics.

What made the negritude movement distinct was its attempt to extend perceptions of the Negro as possessing a distinctive "personality" into all spheres of life, intellectual, emotional and physical.