Not Your Grandfather’s Black Power Movement

alice echols’s black power, white heat: from solidarity politics to radical chic reviewed at the pittsburgh review of books.

Black Lives Matter activists contended that their struggle was “not your grandfather’s civil rights movement.” In Alice Echols’s new book, Black Power, White Heat: From Solidarity Politics to Radical Chic, however, she discovers that your grandfather’s civil rights movement…was not your grandfather’s civil rights movement. Find out more in my new review essay: Michael J. Kramer, “Not Your Grandfather’s Black Power Movement,” Pittsburgh Review of Books, 6 November 2026.