Reviews
"In her illuminating and conceptually innovative book, Potter views her rich data through the lense of black feminist criminology. She vividly presents the women's backgrounds, their experiences living through abuse, and their efforts to fight back and get out." - CHOICE ,, ("The evidence- from youth groups programs, to memorial ceremonies, from early (and admittedly failed) efforts to build monuments, to synagogue programs- is quite overwhelming. So resourcefully has Diner tracked down sermons and song lyrics, posters and programs, that this reviewer finds it hard to imagine any future historians continuing to perpetrate the claim that an explicit communal consciousness of the Holocaust did not really surface until the 1960s.")-(AJS),(), Battle Cries is the most comprehensive study of intimate partner abuse in heterosexual Black relationships. Battle Cries makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on domestic violence and our understanding, in particular, of African American women and their experience of and responses to abusive relationships. Her comparative approach to the topic and her class analysis also makes this the most compelling book to be published recently on the challenges facing Black women in the U.S., ("Diner's book successfully proves that American Jews did remember the Holocaust with reverence and love prior to the early 1960s. Rich in documentation, her work challenges preconceived notions extent in many areas.")-(American Historical Review),(), "Battle Criesis the most comprehensive study of intimate partner abuse in heterosexual Black relationships.Battle Criesmakes a significant contribution to the scholarship on domestic violence and our understanding, in particular, of African American women and their experience of and responses to abusive relationships. Her comparative approach to the topic and her class analysis also makes this the most compelling book to be published recently on the challenges facing Black women in the U.S." Beverly Guy-Sheftall, co-author ofGender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities, " Battle Cries is the most comprehensive study of intimate partner abuse in heterosexual Black relationships. Battle Cries makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on domestic violence and our understanding, in particular, of African American women and their experience of and responses to abusive relationships. Her comparative approach to the topic and her class analysis also makes this the most compelling book to be published recently on the challenges facing Black women in the U.S." - Beverly Guy-Sheftall, co-author of Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities, "Diner's worthy, innovative, diligently researched work should spark controversy and meaningful dialogue among Holocaust scholars and in the Jewish community." - Publishers Weekly, " Battle Cries is the most comprehensive study of intimate partner abuse in heterosexual Black relationships. Battle Cries makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on domestic violence and our understanding, in particular, of African American women and their experience of and responses to abusive relationships. Her comparative approach to the topic and her class analysis also makes this the most compelling book to be published recently on the challenges facing Black women in the U.S." -Beverly Guy-Sheftall,co-author of Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities, In her illuminating and conceptually innovative book, Potter views her rich data through the lense of black feminist criminology. She vividly presents the women's backgrounds, their experiences living through abuse, and their efforts to fight back and get out., ("Diner conclusively disproves American Jewish Holocaust amnesia before 1962 or 1967... In over five hundred pages of massively researched text and notes, including numerous illustrations, we see documented in great detail how American Jews not only remembered and memorialized the six million during those earlier years; they invoked them in almost everything they said and did as a community, particularly in the struggle for civil rights, where they drew from memories of Nazism a special hatred and fear for American racism, segregation, and bigotry.")-(H-Net Reviews),(), ( "In her illuminating and conceptually innovative book, Potter views her rich data through the lense of black feminist criminology. She vividly presents the women's backgrounds, their experiences living through abuse, and their efforts to fight back and get out." )-( CHOICE ),(), ("In the last hundred pages of her book, Diner turns to other factors that led to more widespread memorialization of Holocaust victims and discusses the evolution of Holocaust commemoration in the United States. She commands enormous knowledge and her observations are astute.")-(Holocaust and Genocide Studies),()
