Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita, and Clarence Lang. “The "Long Movement" as Vampire: Temporal and Spatial Fallacies in Recent Black Freedom.” The Journal of African American History 92, no. 2 (Spring, 2007): 265-288.

== Summary ==
This essay challenges the theoretical and interpretative
framework of the long civil rights movement thesis because, the authors argue,
this paradigm collapses periodization schemes, erases conceptual differences,
and blurs regional distinctions. Contrary to Dowd, these authors argue that
“the Long Movement thesis not only distorts the history of the BLM, it also
undermines the utility of these historical studies to inform future struggles
for social change.” These authors argue that this framework ignores such
ruptures as domestic anticommunism and the Cold War (Von Eschen, et al.) (I
would counter-argue that doesn’t discount the continuity, just the change in
tactics). Ultimately, they argue that the Long Movement advocates miss is the
“ideology, discourse, and long range objectives matter as much, if not more,
than the specific inequities challenged, or the particular means employed
toward those ends.”