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The “Négritude” arose in Paris in the Thirties. Assertion of “Negro identity” in literature can’t be dissociate from colonial domination as well as from the main black peoples representations and from the literary field mode of acknowledgement itself. Due to their school resources, news candidates to literary field admission didn’t want to stand in minor regionalist and exotic “black writer” position wich was allocated to them. Influenced by American “black revival” movements and encouraged by western discovery of “Negro art” as well as by ethnological research development, they undertook to reverse the mark attached to the “Negro identity.” To take a distinctive part in literary field, they invented One “Negro” Culture and Civilization and tempted to demonstrate that it was specific and universal at the same time.