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.”