Silencing the Past

Title: Silencing the Past
Author: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
History: 1689097
ISBN: 9780807080535
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2015
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 2nd Revised
Section: History | Caribbean & West Indies | General
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: 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 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.