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Michel-Rolph Trouillot on History

1949–2012 Haiti

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History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995)

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