negritude thought

Négritude is a literary and ideological movement, developed by francophone black
intellectuals, writers, and politicians in France in the 1930s by a group that
included the future Senegalese President Léopold
Sédar Senghor, Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and
the Guianan Léon
Damas.The Négritude writers found solidarity in a common black
identity as a rejection of perceived French colonial
racism. They
believed that the shared black heritage of members of the African diaspora was
the best tool in fighting against French political and intellectual
hegemony and
domination. They formed a realistic literary style and formulated their Marxist
ideas as part of this movement