Term generally used to describe a racialist view of culture and politics among intellectuals in Haiti. It became a fully fledged movement after the American occupation (1915-34) and under the influence of Jean Price-Mars. In the 1930s it could be called the Haitian brand of négritude, with its emphasis on the African past, the Voodoo religion, and the need for authentic black leadership. It was promoted by the journal Les Griots, organ of the ethnological movement started by Louis Diaquoi, Lorimer Denis, and François Duvalier. It became the ideological basis for the Duvalier regime in 1957.
[Michael Dash]
