1) Blackness 1) French word used in English 2) Ideology 3) Political orientation 4) Political theory 
literary movement of the 1930s, `40s, and `50s that began among French-speaking African and Caribbean writers living in Paris as a protest against ... [10 related articles]
Negritude is a concept that reasserts black African cultural and aesthetic values against European colonialism; stating most simply that black intuition is opposed to European logic. It has been current since the 1930s, when it was used originally among French-speaking African writers and intellectuals to emphasise their pride in their own culture....
[n] - an ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms
noun an ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms; an affirmation of the African cultural heritage
the historical, cultural, and social heritage considered common to blacks collectively.