Aimé Césaire, a poet and playwright from Martinique, was one of the founders and creators of the Negritude movement, a concept created by black politicians, intellectuals, and writers in France during the 1930s.

The Negritude movement was one of solidarity of a common black identity, using that to reject the colonial racism of the French.

Acceptance and celebration of one’s blackness is another part of Negritude that Césaire emphasized.

Cultural identity and black identity were key topics in Césaire’s works.

The Harlem Renaissance provided great influence for Césaire’s ideology on black identity.