Alex Dupuy is a retired sociology professor emeritus and author in the United States. He chaired Wesleyan University’s African American Studies department and was its John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology. ^[1] Born in Haiti, ^[2] he has written books and essays on Haiti. ^[3] An oral interview with him was recorded by Wesleyan in March 2019. ^[4]

Dupuy's work engages with the writings of Karl Marx and the history of capitalism. He argues for the primary importance of class in understanding the Haitian Revolution, ^[5] writing that race is a "purely ideological construct developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to justify the enslavement of Africans in the European colonies of the Americas". ^[6] He criticized the common understanding of how the Revolution affected Hegel's concept of the " master-slave dialectic", arguing that Hegel's racism and his ignorance about slavery in the Americas makes this supposed influence profoundly unlikely. ^[7]

Writings

• “A Neo-Liberal Model for Post-Duvalier Haiti,” unpublished manuscript, 1995 ^[8]
• Haiti: From Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens: Essays on the Politics and Economics of Underdevelopment, 1804–2013, Westview Press (1988) ^{[9] [10]}
• The Prophet and Power; Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the international community, and Haiti, Rowman & Littlefield (2007) ^{[11] [12]}
• Haiti In The World Economy; Class, Race, And Underdevelopment Since 1700, Routledge (2019), reprint of 1989 book ^{[13] [14] [15] [16]}
• Rethinking the Haitian Revolution; Slavery, Independence, and the Struggle for Recognition Rowman & Littlefield (2019) ^[17]
• Haiti in the New World Order; The Limits of Democratic Revolution Westview Press (1997) ^{[18] [2]}

Articles (selected)

• “Slavery and underdevelopment in the Caribbean: A critique of the “plantation economy” perspective” 1983 ^[19]

References