Silencing the Past 20th anniversary edition

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Silencing the Past 20th anniversary edition
Silencing the Past 20th anniversary edition
Author : Michel-Rolph Trouillot
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Publisher : Beacon Press
Language : English
Release Date : 17 March 2015
ISBN : 9780807080535
Pages : 217 pages
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Silencing the Past 20th anniversary edition by Michel-Rolph Trouillot Book PDF Summary

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.

Silencing the Past 20th anniversary edition

Silencing the Past 20th anniversary edition by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

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

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