, subtitled (roughly translated as "The Black Student, Monthly Journal of the Association of Martinique Students in France"), is a journal created by the Martinican

Aimé Césaire Aimé Fernand David Césaire (; ; 26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a French poet, author, and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature" and coined the word in French. He ...

in 1935 in Paris. The Guyanese Léon-Gontran Damas published his first pigmentary poems, and

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Léopold Sédar Senghor Léopold Sédar Senghor ( , , ; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese politician, cultural theorist and poet who served as the first president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980. Ideologically an African socialist, Senghor was one ...

published his first articles in the magazine while they were students. Damas stated the journal as "...a corporative and combative journal which aimed to end tribalization and the clan system in force in the

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! We ceased to be Martinican, Guadeloupean, Guyanese, African and Malagasy students and became one and the same black student." Only two issues of the journal are available, those of March 1935 and May–June 1935. It was in an article entitled ''Conscience raciale et révolution sociale'' ("Racial Consciousness and Social Revolution") in (May–June 1935) that Aimé Césaire would express his concept of Negritude, which he would continue throughout his work.

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''L’Étudiant'' ''noir,'' n.1 (March 1935)

''L’Étudiant'' ''noir,'' n.3 (May–June 1935)
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