{"id":22337,"date":"2022-05-13T10:17:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T14:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=22337"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:49:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:49:48","slug":"audra-diptee-asks-how-do-we-effectively-mobilize-historical-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2022\/audra-diptee-asks-how-do-we-effectively-mobilize-historical-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Audra Dipt\u00e9e asks “how do we effectively mobilize historical knowledge?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The following is a short excerpt from Nick Ward’s article “Reclaiming the Caribbean\u2019s Historical Truth: History Professor confronts distorted colonial narratives in textbooks and the classroom<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHistory may be about the past, but it is contested in the present, in a fight for a particular vision of the future,\u201d says Audra Dipt\u00e9e<\/a>, Associate Professor in the Department of History<\/a> at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To reclaim the historical truth of the Caribbean, Dipt\u00e9e\u2019s latest research project drags into public light a systematic scheme by white colonists to erase the violent records of British rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The programme, titled \u2018Operation Legacy\u2019, was executed by the British Colonial Office from the 1950s until the 1970s in an effort to save the British Government from embarrassment and incrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through Operation Legacy, government employees were instructed to destroy and hide official documents to ensure \u201cthat any histories that were written would serve them as they moved from a colonial power dynamic to a neocolonial power dynamic,\u201d explains Dipt\u00e9e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result of this destructive action is a completely distorted historical narrative penned by the colonists \u2013 a fable wrought with colonial biases and self-interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOperation Legacy is one of those cases when you cannot help but say \u2018truth is stranger than fiction,\u2019\u201d says Dipt\u00e9e.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following is a short excerpt from Nick Ward’s article “Reclaiming the Caribbean\u2019s Historical Truth: History Professor confronts distorted colonial narratives in textbooks and the classroom.” \u201cHistory may be about the past, but it is contested in the present, in a fight for a particular vision of the future,\u201d says Audra Dipt\u00e9e, Associate Professor in the Department […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22338,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22337\/revisions\/22338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}