Review: Negritude curated by Peggy Blood - Telegraph India
Rita Datta | | Published 13.03.21, 12:14 AM Between the Harlem Renaissance (1918-1930s) and Rosa Parks’s historic defiance in a Montgomery bus in 1955, there rose the voice of colonized Africans in Paris —Aimé Césaire, Léopold Senghor, (the first president of Senegal) and Léon-Gontran Damas — who invented a term for a new Black consciousness: Negritude. Its unapologetic affirmation of identity shakes off white people and white-centrism from Black reckoning to assert a ...
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