...Alex Dupuy This article analyzes the shifts in the balance of power between Aristide and the Haitian dominant and middle classes and the foreign powers (the United States, France, and Canada) during the two periods of Aristide's presidency (1991/1994-1996, and 2001-2004). In the first period...

...Valerie Kaussen This article analyzes the topic of dictatorship, political violence, and popular struggle in two recent works that treat the rise and fall of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide: Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community...

...Lyonel Trouillot A discussion of Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti and Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment. Small Axe, Inc. 2009 Translated by Nadève Ménard BOOK...

...Nick Nesbitt The contemporaneous publication of Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and the Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment in 2007 marks a watershed in contemporary Haitian Studies. Together, these two critically engaged...

... Smartt Bell’s biography of Toussaint Louverture, Alex Dupuy’s The Prophet and Power, and Peter Hallward’s Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment.33 I think attention to the problem of popular insurgency is one way both to link together our analysis of past and present...

... already written at length about Alex Dupuy’s The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti,1 so I will limit this brief response to Lyonel Trouillot’s “rebuttal,” if that’s the right word, of my Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics...

... University Press, 2007); Alex Dupuy, Haiti and the New World Order: The Limits of the Democratic Revolution (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997); Vijay Prashad and Teo Ballvé, eds., Dispatches from Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism (Cambridge, MA: South End, 2008); and Machiko...

... between two fundamentally contrasting—indeed, perhaps incompatible—approaches to the story of the rise and downfall of Jean-Bertrand Aristide: Alex Dupuy’s The Prophet and Power: Jean- Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti, and Peter Hallward’s Damming...

... will and uncertainty. The tension becomes disconcerting when it involves preemptive actions such as the ones involved in Giorgio’s mission. In order to prevent a catastrophe, Jean-Pierre Dupuy wrote, one must know that it will happen. But if one succeeds in preventing it, that catastrophe will never have happened...

... spearheaded by major foreign powers who structure and influence the contours of the global economy. Haitian American sociologist Alex Dupuy asserts that Haiti’s dependency on foreign aid is part of a long legacy of “development strategies” set in 1970 “that turned Haiti into the supplier of the region’s...

... of Decay and Renewal.” Review of Haiti in the New World Order , by Alex Dupuy; Haitian Frustrations, Dilemmas for US Policy , edited by Georges Fauriol; Building Peace in Haiti , by Chetan Kumar; Haiti: Dangerous Crossroads , edited by NACLA; From Dessalines to Duvalier , by David Nicholls; Haiti...

...). Alex Dupuy is Class of 1958 Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University, Middletown. He is the author of Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelop- ment since 1700 (1989), Haiti in the New World Order: The Limits of the Democratic Revolution (1997), and The Prophet...

... Predatory Republic . 14 James Ferguson, Papa Doc, Baby Doc: Haiti and the Duvaliers (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988), 60–118. 13 See Robert Fatton Jr., Haiti's Predatory Republic (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2002), 55–66. 12 Alex Dupuy, “Conceptualizing the Duvalier Dictatorship...

... it, and the dream of freedom stirred by the events of 1934. Polyné’s proposition that Red and Black in Haiti converses with the important political studies of Robert Fatton Jr. and Alex Dupuy is a useful way to link the history covered in the book with the difficult post-Duvalier struggle...

...: Eudine Barriteau, Hilary Beckles, Patrick Bellegarde- Smith, Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, Rafaël Confiant, Maryse Condé, J. Michael Dash, Leslie Desmangles, Alex Dupuy, Édouard Glissant, Stuart Hall, Michel Laguerre, Michel Rolph-Trouillot, Hilbourne Watson, and Sylvia Wynter). Torres...

... Goodman, and Democracy Now!, Getting Haiti Right This Time (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2004); Pat Chin, ed., Haiti: A Slave Revolution; 200 Years After 1804 (New York: International Action Center, 2004); Alex Dupuy, The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International...

..., Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance,” in United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, Sociological Theories: Race and Colonialism (Paris: UNESCO, 1980), 305–45; Alex Dupuy, Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment since 1700 (Boulder, CO: Westview...

... Press, 1995). 4 For contrasting perspectives on Aristide, see Alex Dupuy, The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Interna- tional Community, and Haiti (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007); and Peter Hallward, Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics...

... but also as proof of peace and salvation. Th e blood of the slaves, then of the revolutionaries, cleansed the stains left by the horrifi c slave trade and brutal coloniza- tion. Th erefore, the whites’ gory extermination along with that of the traitors, whoever 21. Alex Dupuy, Haïti in the New...

... accounts of the state after the end of the Duvalier regime, see Alex Dupuy, The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006); and Robert Fatton Jr., Haiti’s Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy (Boulder...