Silencing the past [electronic resource] : Power and the Production of History / Michel-Rolph Trouillot ; with a new foreword by Hazel V. Carby.

In this provocative analysis of historical narrative, Michel-Rolph Trouillot demonstrates how power operates, often invisibly, at all stages in the making of history to silence certain voices. From the West's failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution, the most successful slave revolt in history,...

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