“Teaching” Trouillot tomorrow and we should just read it out loud line by line. I’m not teaching it. I’m just marveling at the language and his brilliance. It’s hard to teach something when every time someone says something about it you just shake your head and scream, “right?!”
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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“Teaching” Trouillot tomorrow and we should just read it out loud line by line. I’m not teaching it. I’m just marveling at the language and his brilliance. It’s hard to teach something when every time someone says something about it you just shake your head and scream, “right?!”
November 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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This project is amazing.
The fact that workers who gave their labor and lives to building the railroads were excluded from the Golden Spike photo celebrating and commemorating joining east and west U.S. lines proves that history includes silences.
Power detetmines what is written (Trouillot).
The fact that workers who gave their labor and lives to building the railroads were excluded from the Golden Spike photo celebrating and commemorating joining east and west U.S. lines proves that history includes silences.
Power detetmines what is written (Trouillot).
I saw an exhibit called “Archive and Autobiography” with project by Chinese MFA grad Zuofu Wang on treatment of Chinese workers on Florida citrus farms, in N.E. factories & during construction of U.S. railroads where many died.
20,000 workers, yet they were excluded from famous Golden Spike photo.
20,000 workers, yet they were excluded from famous Golden Spike photo.
Golden Spike Redux
The role that Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad has long been buried. 150 years after the completion of the tracks, that’s finally changing.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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“Built into any system of domination is the tendency to proclaim its own normalcy. To acknowledge resistance as a mass phenomenon is to acknowledge the possibility that something is wrong with the system”
~ Trouillot
~ Trouillot
September 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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I LOVE Trouillot
September 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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“For those upon whom…power is exercised, naïveté is always a mistake”
~ Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past
~ Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past
September 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I waited until Week 3 to introduce Trouillot to my 441 students (History of Sport in American Society)... but in the upcoming week we get to talk about the Cooperstown myth, so I figured it was about time to bring in his discourse on commemoration from Chapter 4 of Silencing the Past.
September 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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*Worldview wins over the facts: white hegemony is natural and taken for granted; any alternative is still in the domain of the unthinkable.*--- Michel-Rolph Trouillot
January 12, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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📚 📻 Dans le Livre du jour de ce mardi, Frédéric Koster vous invite à lire "Histoires simples" de Lyonel Trouillot, paru chez Actes Sud.
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Histoires simples - Lyonel Trouillot | Bretagne5
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September 10, 2024 at 6:00 AM
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« Si le duvaliérisme et Lavalas me semblent des idéologies négatives, cela ne m’empêche pas, de les critiquer ouvertement et radicalement », déclare Lyonel Trouillot dans cette nouvelle tribune sur AyiboPost ⬇️ ayibopost.com/lyonel-troui...
February 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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In "Silencing the Past" Haitian historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot says "silences" enter the production of history at four moments:
1) the making of sources
2) the making of archives
3) the making of narratives
4) the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance)
1) the making of sources
2) the making of archives
3) the making of narratives
4) the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance)
November 5, 2023 at 4:28 PM
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Cada vez que eu penso que fui convidada pra uma conferência de encerramento de um evento na UFBA sobre Michel Rolph Trouillot eu começo a tremer, dá falta de ar pqp
October 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Le doux parfum des temps à venir, Lyonel Trouillot (2013)
October 19, 2023 at 2:26 PM
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Calling in Michel Rolph-Trouillot, GOAT.
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Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot: 9780807080535 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
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 prod...
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March 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Tiya Miles, All That She Carried
Nina Silber, This Was Ain’t Over
Bruce E. Baker, What Reconstruction Meant
Carole Emberton and Baker, Remembering Reconstruction
Blight, Race and Reunion
Michel-Ralph Trouillot, Silencing the Past
John Bodnar, Remaking Memory and The Good War in American Memory
Nina Silber, This Was Ain’t Over
Bruce E. Baker, What Reconstruction Meant
Carole Emberton and Baker, Remembering Reconstruction
Blight, Race and Reunion
Michel-Ralph Trouillot, Silencing the Past
John Bodnar, Remaking Memory and The Good War in American Memory
March 15, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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Aimé Césaire, Léon-Gontran Damas, Primo Levi, Benjamin Fondane, Ocean Vuong, Évelyne Trouillot…
Il y a des textes qu’on ne lit pas seulement : ils nous habitent.
Gaël Faye en a choisi vingt, comme on dresse la carte d’une vie intérieure.
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Il y a des textes qu’on ne lit pas seulement : ils nous habitent.
Gaël Faye en a choisi vingt, comme on dresse la carte d’une vie intérieure.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/tj9
July 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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November 26, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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Since that is the case, journalists, especially those working for legacy media must understand they are not non-historic observers but ideological actors on the stage of history and should act accordingly. Thanks to @profgabriele.com for assigning Trouillot for that medievalism course!
December 18, 2024 at 2:11 AM
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And here's section III, with a historiographical essay by me putting his work in the context of other 20th C. scholarship on #HaitianHistory & alongside other great essays:
November 28, 2024 at 4:51 AM
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An update to this @scholarlykitchn abt my local reading group (for mostly retirees). Yesterday we discussed @MJWitgen _Infinity of Nations_ & the deep, passionate convo abt the importance of #VastEarlyAmerica, w ref to Trouillot & other readings was 🤩...
November 22, 2024 at 6:08 AM
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Reminds me of that quote from Trouillot again.
June 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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You must have already the Trouillot chapter -- I'm interested also in this! Learned not that long ago that Kansas (and some other states) did a big Coronado celebration in I think 1941.
August 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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The first chapter of Michelle Caswell's "Archiving the Unspeakable" on the Cambodian genocide does a great job of engaging Trouillot from an archivist perspective too. I keep trying to get profs to assign the pair but I feel like ppl are reluctant to assign excerpts. 😕
October 18, 2023 at 1:18 AM
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Trouillot from “Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History”
February 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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