User:Bunker1776/Léon Damas

Born in 1912, less than a year after his death Damas' (youngest of five children0 mother passed away from illness and he was placed in the care of his paternal aunt Gabrielle Damas. (sentence does not make sense) NOTABLE WORKS: In 1937 Damas published his first work of poetry Pigments. He was the first Black writer to address the impact of colonization on the psyche of the colonized. The work, Pigments, helped identify and address the internal racism that occurred in the ancestral African community that had been colonized in the Caribbean. This was a revolutionary idea for the time, and was years ahead of what would later be termed as "the colonized personality." The book was a huge success and translated into dozens of different African languages. The book was such a success that the French government effectively banned the book from market, and even burned numerous copies citing "a threat to national security."

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/damas-leon-gontran-1912-1978/

Miller, E. Ethelbert. “In Memoriam: Dr. Leon Gontran Damas (1912-1978).” Callaloo, no. 2, 1978, pp. 61–61. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2930776.