Negritude poets posited a shared essence uniting all Black people

Evidence

Through their poetry and art, they acknowledged that Black people all over the world share certain cultural and emotional characteristics that constitute the essence of blackness, and they called on artists to capture this essence in their creations. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 945

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concise statement of the Negritude movement’s core aesthetic claim about an essence of blackness.
• XREF: connects to: Negritude affirmed diasporic black solidarity across colonial and postcolonial geographies — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 344; Du Bois celebrated a spiritual-psychical black uniqueness resembling feminine essence — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 669; Robinson traces Black radical thought to a shared African epistemology. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 15
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Negritude affirmed diasporic black solidarity across colonial and postcolonial geographies — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 344; Du Bois celebrated a spiritual-psychical black uniqueness resembling feminine essence — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 669; Robinson traces Black radical thought to a shared African epistemology. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 15

Broader Connections

• Negritude affirmed diasporic black solidarity across colonial and postcolonial geographies #expands (0.95) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 344