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Silencing the Past|Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Silencing the Past : Power and the Production of History
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Now part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul PeckThe 20th anniversary edition of a pioneering classic that explores the contexts in which history is produced--now with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel Carby Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution--the most successful slave revolt in history--alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history. This modern classic resides at the intersection of history, anthropology, Caribbean, African-American, and post-colonial studies, and has become a staple in college classrooms around the country. In a new foreword, Hazel Carby explains the book's enduring importance to these fields of study and introduces a new generation of readers to Trouillot's brilliant analysis of power and history's silences.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780807080535
  • ISBN-10: 0807080535
  • Publisher: Beacon Press
  • Publish Date: March 2015
  • Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds
  • Page Count: 216

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