In their article “Pan-Africanism, Negritude, and the Currency of Blackness,” Darien J, Davis, and Judith Michelle Williams define the Negrismo movement as one that “emphasized Africa's contribution. to Western culture… argues that the exclusion of blacks from the dominant culture has done a disservice to all Cubans” (2015, p. 115) The Negrismo movement aimed to unite blacks and whites in Cuba for the better of their country. Although there were many racial problems in Cuba, the Negristas emphasized a sense of national pride and identity in conjunction with their blackness. Negrismo was as much a nationalist movement as it was a movement for racial justice