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irth started in 1939 when the Parisian Review published his Cahier D'un Returr Au Pays Natal (Journal of a Return to my Native Country, which has since been re-issued in book form by Presence Africaine) . The Journal and later poems gave impetus to what is now considered Negritude . But Negritude itself (the concept of) goes back a little further (to about 1927) and was called Negrismo . Negrismo started in Cuba and was, as was Negritude, influenced by Africa and all things African . Cubans, as well as Africans, had grown up under the white ruling class which tried to destroy everything anti-white (anti- Western) or anything remotely connected with Africa . Negrismo grew rapidly and influenced such writers as the Cuban poets Ramon Guirao and Nicolas Guillen and the Puerto Rican poet Luis Pales Matos . Thus, the frame of reference that the African and Cuban writers used to work in has been established . To bring the concept of Negritude a little closer to home I refer you to Leopold Senghor's definition : "Negritude is the` sum total of the values of the civilization of the African World . It is not racialism, it is culture . It is the embracing and domination of a situation in order to apprehend the cosmos by process of coming to terms with it. . . . Negritude as we had then begun to conceive and define it was a weapon of defense and attack and inspiration . . . ." Actually, Negritude is the sum total of black consciousness and, when used, is not only applicable to literature but to all forms of art, e .g ., painting, sculpture, dance, music, etc . Ezekiel Mphahlele, who most certainly is not a proponent of Negritude, relates this sum-total feeling in his The African Image: "It is rather the assimilated African who has absorbed French culture, who is now passionately wanting to recapture his past . In his poetry he extols his ancestors, ancestoral mask, African wood carvings and bronze art and tries to recover the moorings of his oral literature ; he clearly feels he has come to a dead-end in European culture, and is still not really accepted as an organic part of French society, for all the assimilation he has been through . As a result, French-speaking African nationalists have become a personification of this strong revulsion. . . " I think that, by lightly reviewing the idea of Negritude, it will enable us to better understand the thought and meaning of blackwriting . How alike blackpeople in this country are to the assimilated French- Africans . However, in our case the term assimilated can be substituted with the euphemism integrated. Blackwriting as we view it today is the result of centuries of slavery and forced alienation from Africa and one's-self. We've been exiles in a strange land where our whole life-style repeatedly comes into contradiction after contradiction . Blackwriting, to the Afro-American (as is Negritude to the French-African), is the antithesis to a decadent culture that has systematically, over the centuries, debased and dehumanized us with the fury and passion of an unfeeling computer . Literature produced by blackhands is not, necessarily, blackwriting. What has to be embodied in blackwriting, first and foremost, is that consciousness which reflects the true black experience ; the true Afro- American experience ; written and related in a style indicative of that experience. Which may mean, as I believe it does, new forms and (Continued on page 78) 52 Morch 1969 NEGRO DIGEST
Grow old? Maan! I ain't never Gonna grow old-no, not me . 'Cause when I dig that old Cat creeping down the alley I'm gonna run in the house . And when he goes to scratching On the door and calling : "Joseph Bevans Bush," I'm gonna Answer : "He ain't here old man- In fact, he done moved a long time Ago ; and ain't left no forwarding Address either ." Grow old? No man, not me. -JOSEPH BEVANS BUSH
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1YIARCH tliBB A JOtiNSaN rl7"LICATI
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CONTENTS The Blacli University The
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Kwame Nkrumah compares the colonial
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deficiency is not sa much a shortco
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are we here? We were sent here to l
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acial group with rites and loyaltie
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might well be that, to meet the nee
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A distinguished young educator from
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come to accept the judgment . Conse
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ditional knowledge required for the
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Faculty, Curriculum, Research . . .
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passive role and assumed that the e
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ante is formidable is obvious to an
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Social Change in the Sixties THE BL
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trends in the black community to sh
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ployment rate for black youth betwe
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For Our People - Everywhere "By far
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analogues for possible study . ) We
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World publication of the Caribbean,
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NEGRO DIGEST March 1968 39
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make Howard "sixty per cent white"
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Simultaneously there arose a hybrid
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NEGRO DIGEST March 1968 In the days
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A Call To Concerned Black Educators
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BOOK "Great Literature i.s simply l
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the members of Miss Brooks' worksho
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BY CHRISTINE REAMS ' . . . Ifo .sat
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as Mike and Jim dashed down the ste
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"Oh, my hair i~ so curly, so curly
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one of them a good whipping, no mat
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a while . I didn't know what she me
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Since sufficient teachers cannot be
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NEW PROGRAMS AND EXPERIMENTATION Th
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TRUSTEES If I seem indifferent to t
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years when '`Christian character an
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leaders and professors posing as mi
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out of "The Punch Out" and other st
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penniless writer, he travels the ga
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No doubt about it, Mr . Williams ca
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esearch crying for the kind of clar
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lightly as Western intellectual imp
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as a white man with a similar educa
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lacks are better off, but we must a
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income blacks and better for the mi
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compared to white men had not impro
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"iON ONYE LOCKARD is a selftaught a
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Plea ForA Second Chance : Work-worn
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That something is gravely wrong wit
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THE DUKE NATURAL SET MAlR SHEEN lea
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Page 103 and 104: C®i'y~'>~' i'tw'~'~ Editor's Notes
Page 105 and 106: An Open Letter to Black Students in
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Page 113 and 114: of white institutions that there si
Page 115 and 116: Platform and Program S HL "Today we
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Page 119 and 120: New agencies for Black education (A
Page 121 and 122: ment of a plan to hire 200 Black pr
Page 123 and 124: people in their struggle toward a c
Page 125 and 126: else suggests that the group is bac
Page 127 and 128: e established far Black students th
Page 129 and 130: A Dual Responsibility The White Uni
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Page 133 and 134: Black Perspective A cU~TU~~L, ~~~I~
Page 135 and 136: life-style, yet they persist in the
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Page 139 and 140: The Positiveness of Separation BL~C
Page 141 and 142: white students are, except that wha
Page 143 and 144: did) to thesis students who then gr
Page 145 and 146: Roach, Harold Cruse, Rhody Mc- Coy,
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Page 149 and 150: ~. iii1~i-i Black Life, White "Expe
Page 151: BOOKS Black Writing : this is u, th
Page 155 and 156: answering ; "Monday. That is if tha
Page 157 and 158: at a time when the ratio of Negro d
Page 159 and 160: A Special Experience xox .a~, xi .:
Page 161 and 162: to comment that I was a typical cre
Page 163 and 164: students said, "Didn't Malcolm prea
Page 165 and 166: What I did object to was the effort
Page 167 and 168: with American education, period. Ho
Page 169 and 170: President Emeritus, Morehouse Colle
Page 171 and 172: them, there just aren't enough blac
Page 173 and 174: I cannot see the sponsorship for su
Page 175 and 176: economic changes now occurring with
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Page 179 and 180: to say that "yet an irreverent revi
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Page 185 and 186: and what is the right procedure for
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Page 189 and 190: (C) Consistency of Thought and Acti
Page 191 and 192: J. .JICLCfj ._Jd .L'~ .FU~~e ; one
Page 193 and 194: must carry a greater sexual burden
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BLACK HISTORY BLACK POWER U .S .A .
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~re~atorc~ ~o~e~- THE BLACK UNIVERS
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"1lTew Creation or Familiar Deatla"
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contradictions they entail . Furthe
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As northern universities continue t
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Response to Vincent Harding 12 BY R
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was then running for the state asse
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e done without some base of support
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amount of emphasis-both in Bro . Mo
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m~,irofir_- ~r- ir;r_ rr_~,~r; v;~~
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Institute of the Black World : Basi
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In Chicago, movement toward the Bla
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olled . At this time, over 400 stud
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stand and serve as a bulwark, or re
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Educating For Liberation and Humani
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travel to the moon a routine miracl
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Step 2-A deliberate effort is made
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curriculum and philosophy, is in a
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38 Charlie Cobb, one of the key org
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Initial organizing efforts proved q
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1 . Independent African Civilizatio
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fl Position Paper CENTER FOR BLACK
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standards and values that commit ou
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"Ah thought he could be grateful fo
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Gray Ward . . . Historian Benjamin
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liberation struggle against Europea
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his reputation tramped in front of
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"Naw, the cash draw wuz clean, but
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screen out those professors, white
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elative to other areas in Californi
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power to purge when necessary . Qui
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all of those persons who are not on
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Broken down, here is how I see this
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tion. (This would not exempt the ex
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~omrrcurtiverdiEc~- (Continued from
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Each community will select/elect a
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ing the amount of ivory tower energ
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Before this issue can be systematic
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of a positive identity with whom th
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This paradigm was to provide the fo
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lion statements and social studies
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s Wilcox, Preston . The Black Unive
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An Assessment ~la~k t~ ~~ ~ ~ i~ ~u
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and compartmentalization . We canno
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lishment. Drum and Spear Press is a
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~erepecEive~- On writers and writin
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will make available $100 cash prize
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But times and the world have change
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Mod, Modish and Militant Keeling on
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