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Title: Silencing the Past

Author: Michel-Rolph Trouillot

ISBN: 9780807080535

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2015

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: 2nd Revised

Condition Note: New from the publisher

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Now part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul Peck The 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 CarbyPlacing 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 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.