Négritude has its origins in a meeting and shared experience of Cesaire from Martinique, Damas from Guyana and Senghor from Senegal in Paris. They shared their common experiences of French colonialism and anti-blackness, which according to Cesaire, led the people of Martinique to attempt to distance themselves from their African ancestry and adopt European values and ideals. So there was this problem of the devaluation of blackness leading to individuals in these cultures to internalize the racism and think that their connection to their African heritage was a bad thing. So out of this common experience of oppression, they built together a movement centered around both the shared experience of people of African descent living in a world dominated by European ideals and cultures, but also a valuation and valorization of blackness as a unifying cultural identity to be proud of. According to Cesaire, Négritude attempts to answer not Descartes' question of who am I as a human, but the question of who are we as a Black people in a white world?

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