How Long? How Long?

A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long? How long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile African-American men and white women. Author Belinda Robnett argues that the diversity of experiences of the African-American women organizers has been under-emphasized in favor of monolithic treatments of their femaleness and blackness.

Belinda Robnett is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of California at Davis.