Silencing the Past

Silencing the Past
2015 paperback edition
AuthorMichel-Rolph Trouillot
SubjectHistory
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherBeacon Press
Publication date
1995
ISBN0807080535

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History is a 1995 history book by Haitian historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot. The twentieth-anniversary edition features a foreword by Hazel V. Carby on the impact of Trouillot's work on postcolonial studies. Trouillot was an Anthropology and Social Sciences professor at the University of Chicago.