AP African American Studies / Unit 4: Movements and Debates
4.1 The Négritude and Negrismo Movements
Notes
Négritude (1930s) was a movement of French-speaking Black writers (Aimé Césaire, Léopold Senghor, Léon-Gontran Damas) celebrating African identity and rejecting colonialism. Negrismo was a similar Spanish-Caribbean movement (Nicolás Guillén).
Practice
Négritude was led by:
Paris, 1930s.
Négritude celebrated:
Pride.
Nicolás Guillén was associated with:
Afro-Cuban poetry.
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