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"Orphée Noir" is a 1948 essay by Jean-Paul Sartre, published as a preface to Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache de langue française, edited by Leopold Sedar Senghor

The essay analyzed the négritude movement in an essay called "Orphée Noir" (Black Orpheus) which served as the introduction to a volume of francophone poetry called Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache, compiled by Léopold Senghor. In this essay, Sartre characterizes négritude as the polar opposite of colonial racism in a Hegelian dialectic and with it he helped to introduce Négritude issues to French intellectuals. In his view, négritude was an "anti-racist racism" (racisme antiraciste) necessary to the final goal of racial unity.


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