The C.L.R. James Institute: What's New

The C.L.R. James Institute

What's new on this site

21 July 2008: 5th Anniversary of Jim's death

10 April 2008: Birthday of Jim Murray

21 July 2007: 4th Anniversary of Jim's death

10 April 2007: Birthday of Jim Murray

C.L.R. James at home, Brixton, 11 January 1988, photograph by Clive Williams

23 October 2006: 50th Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution

Introduction to Facing Reality (1958)

21 July 2006: 3rd anniversary of Jim Murray's death. (More to come.)

10 April 2006: Birthday of Jim Murray

3 March 2006

Jim's classmates of the Eastchester High School's Class of 1966 remember him: see latest announcement on web page In Memoriam: Jim Murray, Director, The C.L.R. James Institute, April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003. Thanks to all for enquiries and support, more to come. Happy birthday to Harold Dumain. — In memory of Jim and of my beloved Evelyn (27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005)

25 August 2005

Links page updated

21 July 2005: 2nd Anniversary of Jim's death

10 April 2005: Birthday of Jim Murray

4 January 2005: 104th birthday of C.L.R. James

8 November 2004: Anniversary of Jim Murray memorial

18 October 2004

Links page updated

12 October 2004

Bulletin Board update: Book Publication: CLR James's Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism?

10 August 2004

Links page updated

9 August 2004

Bulletin Board update: Special Delivery Reissued in Paperback

Conference program update: C.L.R. James, Intellectual Independence, and the Division of Labor

Links page updated: James & Dunayevskaya texts on Marxists Internet Archive, texts on James & other texts, activities of the C.L.R. James Institute (new rubric)

The Pequod Project: new link added

Aspects of Marxian Economics: link added

21 July 2004: Anniversary of Jim's death

19 July 2004: Anniversary of last conversation with Jim

8 May 2004: 1 year since I last saw Jim alive.

10 April 2004: the late Jim Murray's 55th birthday

New feature: Jim's Letters to Ralph

6 April 2004

Carrying on the Legacy: Conference Program in Preparation

24 March 2004

Links page updated

6 March 2004

Revision of: Live Interview with Ralph Dumain on "Living Room"

3 March 2004

Links page updated

The Pequod Project: new link added

Bulletin Board update (Dumain interview)

2 March 2004

Live Interview with Ralph Dumain on "Living Room"

21 January 2004

6-month anniversary of Jim Murray's death
Ralph Dumain interviewed live on radio: report to follow

13 January 2004

Coming soon: New Year's Message from Ralph Dumain

21 November 2003

Links page updated

15 November 2003

Update: Memorial Tributes to Jim Murray

10 November 2003

Jim Murray Memorial Address by Ralph Dumain

5 November 2003

Ralph Dumain's Farewell Message to Jim Murray

Update: Memorial Tributes to Jim Murray

2 November 2003

The Hubert Harrison Center updated: new link

24 October 2003

Links page updated: dead link revived

16 October 2003

Addition to Sightings/Citings/Sitings: References to C.L.R. James in Current Scholarly & General Literature

4 October 2003

Announcement: Jim Murray Memorial in New York City, Saturday, November 8, 2003, 1:30-4:30 pm

1 October 2003

Update: Memorial Tributes to Jim Murray

25 September 2003

Update: Memorial Tributes to Jim Murray

19 September 2003

Bulletin Board update: Not Without Love: The Memoirs of Constance Webb Pearlstien

13 September 2003

update: Memorial Tributes to Jim Murray

9 September 2003

Announcement: Jim Murray Memorial Fund

8 September 2003

update: Memorial Tributes to Jim Murray

3 September 2003

update: Memorial Tributes to Jim Murray

28 August 2003

Addition to Sightings/Citings/Sitings: References to C.L.R. James in Current Scholarly & General Literature

23 August 2003

Notice of Jim's burial

21 August 2003: Jim died one month ago today

Urgent notice: farewell messages to Jim for his interment

Memorial Tributes to Jim Murray initiated

17 August 2003

In Memoriam: Jim Murray, Director, The C.L.R. James Institute, April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003

21 July 2003: Death of Jim Murray, Institute Director. Please direct all communications to Ralph Dumain, Librarian/Archivist. Please be patient in awaiting responses.

4 March 2003

The Pequod Project: new link added; same link added to Links page

29 January 2003

Bulletin Board update: The Miles Davis Story Comes to American Television & Video Stores

25 January 2003

Bulletin Board update: Letters from London Scheduled for U.S. Publication

22 January 2003

Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: Herman Melville and The World We Live In: front & back covers of original 1953 edition (link added to The Pequod Project)

18 January 2003

Links page updated (new section: dead links; links updated & new links added)

17 January 2003

Links page updated (links updated & new links added, including a James interview)

The Bill French Center updated

The Hubert Harrison Center updated

14 January 2003

The Hubert Harrison Center: new links added

Schedule of Talks by Jeff Perry on Hubert Harrison updated

12 January 2003

Bulletin Board update: Radicals Against Race by Brian W. Alleyne, web site

Links page updated (with same information)

6 January 2003

Links page updated (see sections: Other Texts by C.L.R. James & Texts Concerning C.L.R. James)

31 December 2002

Update: The Bill French Center (see link to Moore Crossey)

19 December 2002

Bulletin Board: Tim Hector (24 November 1942 - 12 November 2002): In Memoriam

Tribute to Tim Hector from the Center for Caribbean Thought

Links page updated

26 October 2002

Links page updated

21 October 2002

Revision in attribution: The Crisis and the Triumph, a quote by C.L.R. James typeset as a poem by Jim Murray

13 October 2002

Bulletin Board: Letters from London by C.L.R. James: Book Publication

12 October 2002

New feature: Sightings/Citings/Sitings: References to C.L.R. James in Current Scholarly & General Literature. See also bulletin board announcement.

Schedule of Talks by Jeff Perry on Hubert Harrison updated

Links page updated

Martin Glaberman (1918-2001): First Obituaries updated

30 May 2002

"Filming the City": View from the C.L.R. James Institute

Links page updated

26 May 2002

Links page updated

18 May 2002

A Few Words About Richard Wright [obituary] by Constance Webb

10 May 2002

The Pequod Project: new link added; same link added to Links page

Revised & expanded book announcement: Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival by Clare L. Spark

28 April 2002

Links page updated

24 April 2002

New Bulletin Board announcements: The Miles Davis Story (Mike Dibb) and Radicals Against Race (Brian W. Alleyne)

21 March 2002

This is the first anniversary of the inauguration of this web site.
We thank you for your support of our efforts, which, we promise,
will expand exponentially.

17 March 2002

Bulletin Board: The Dialectics and Aesthetics of Freedom: Hegel, Slavery and 19th Century African American Music by Greg Harrison

Update: The Bill French Center (See "Bill French & Onitsha Market Literature: Afterword to Life Turns Man Up and Down: High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English" by Kurt Thometz)

Links page updated

28 January 2002

Inaugurating the The Constance Webb Pages
"What Next for Richard Wright?" by Constance Webb

25 December 2001

Bulletin board emendation: Martin Glaberman Dies (note Feb. 17 memorial)

21 December 2001

Update: The Bill French Center

20 December 2001

Martin Glaberman (1918-2001): First Obituaries
Bulletin board announcement: Martin Glaberman Dies

17 November 2001

Bulletin board announcement: Lecture: The "Organic Principle" in the Writings of C.L.R. James

15 November 2001

Bulletin board announcements:
C.L.R. James on BBC Radio Four (15 Nov. 2001)
New Richard Wright Biography on C-Span 2 (18 Nov. 2001)

6 November 2001

Inaugurating a new Institute project: The Richard Wright Connection

The Richard Wright Connection: Quotations

See also announcement on the Bulletin Board

2 November 2001

Bulletin Board announcement: C.L.R. James in the Time of Terrorism

Update: The Bill French Center (See "Bill French—A Sister's View" by Bettina French)

19 October 2001

Update: The Bill French Center

16 October 2001

Update: The Bill French Center

10 October 2001

Yes, we survived the tragedy of 11 September

Update: Schedule of Talks by Jeff Perry on Hubert Harrison (see upcoming forum at the Schomburg Center)

Update: The Bill French Center

16 August 2001

Update: Schedule of Talks by Jeff Perry on Hubert Harrison

Links page: new section: links to book adverts on other sites

Bulletin Board: nothing new, but corrections and updates

15 August 2001

Bulletin Board announcement: C.L.R. James and Creolization: Circles of Influence by Nicole King now published.

4 August 2001

Bulletin Board announcement: "Embracing the Wisdom of a Castaway" by Emily Eakin, a feature article on the republication of James's Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways and the James boom in academia, appeared in The New York Times today.

11 July 2001

Texts added:

"Fugitive Research": C.L.R. James and the African American Struggle by Kofi Natambu
[removed 18 September 2001, with apologies]

Aspects of Marxian Economics, debate between J.R. Johnson (pseudonym of C.L.R. James) & Joseph Carter

10 July 2001

Links page additions

9 July 2001

Photo of Ellis Island added to The Pequod Project page

8 July 2001

Text added: James, de Tocqueville and Baudrillard by Anna Grimshaw and Keith Hart

7 July 2001

Text added: Introduction to Special Delivery: The Letters of C.L.R. James to Constance Webb, 1939-1948 by Anna Grimshaw (in two parts)

4 July 2001

Text added: "The Haunting", a chapbook by W.L. Mills

27 June 2001

Text added (summary and bibliography): C.L.R. James on Marx's Capital and State Capitalism

Text by J.R. Johnson [pseudonym of C.L.R. James] added: "Production for the Sake of Production--A Reply to Carter", with "Statement of the Secretariat" and "Letter of J.R. Johnson"

13 June 2001

Postscript on C.L.R. James's "On the Spiritual" by Ralph Dumain

11 June 2001

Preliminary Conference Program for "C.L.R. James at 100: Global Capitalism, Culture and the Politics of World Revolution"; September 20-23, 2001; St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

The Miles Davis Story and Us: facsimile of inscription by Mike Dibb & Ian Carr

7 June 2001

Text added: C.L.R. James, Intellectuals, Non-Identity, & the Division of Labor by Ralph Dumain

6 June 2001

Launch of The Pequod Project, on the occasion of the re-publication of Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In; with several new texts on site

The Hubert Harrison Center: new links added

4 June 2001

Text added: "Negroes and the Labor Movement: An Answer to F. Forrest" by Ernest Rice McKinney, using pseudonym David Coolidge

3 June 2001

Text added: W.E.B. Du Bois and His Work by William Gorman

2 June 2001

Expanded book announcement: Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival by Clare L. Spark

31 May 2001

On C.L.R. James's 'On the Spiritual' by Ralph Dumain

30 May 2001

An Introduction to Jeff Perry by Ralph Dumain

26 May 2001