The movement was immensely influential in the larger cultural milieu of the 1920s. Among other things, the movement further promoted an idea which would have a long and active life among white intellectuals and in white popular culture: the notion of [[primitivist]], African Blackness as an antidote to the bloodless abstraction which many critics saw in white culture <ref>Douglas, Ann (1995) Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s, Farrar, Straus and Giroux</ref>. | The movement was immensely influential in the larger cultural milieu of the 1920s. Among other things, the movement further promoted an idea which would have a long and active life among white intellectuals and in white popular culture: the notion of [[primitivist]], African Blackness as an antidote to the bloodless abstraction which many critics saw in white culture <ref>Douglas, Ann (1995) Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s, Farrar, Straus and Giroux</ref>. |