The C.L.R. James Institute: Texts Published on This Site

The C.L.R. James Institute

Texts Published on This Site

We are not primarily engaged at the present time in publishing James texts ourselves on the web, with exceptions noted below. Instead, we will link to other sites that reproduce James texts. Those sites are solely responsible for their actions in this regard, and our job is merely to point you to James material wherever it can be found. See our page of external links to these texts. Please contact us with information to update our links page.

Our main purpose here is to publish or re-publish essays, articles, and other documents about James and the C.L.R. James Institute and its activities and interests. All material unless otherwise noted is copyrighted by The C.L.R. James Institute and may be reproduced only by special permission thereof. While we are leaving the online publication of James's work to others for the most part, we will from time to time publish quotes from James, and complete articles by James that should already be in the public domain, in areas to which we want to direct the attention of researchers.

On this site:

C.L.R. James on Marx's Capital and State Capitalism.

Aspects of Marxian Economics [debate between J.R. Johnson (pseudonym of C.L.R. James) & Joseph Carter], The New International ", April 1942, pp. 77-80.

Johnson, J.R. [pseudonym of C.L.R. James], "Production for the Sake of Production--A Reply to Carter", Workers Party Bulletin, April 1943, pp. 198-209.

With "Statement of the Secretariat" and "Letter of J.R. Johnson" (C.L.R. James), Workers Party Bulletin, April 1943, pp. 196-197.

C.L.R. James, Quotations from Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In

C.L.R. James on Moby Dick & State Capitalism.

C.L.R. James on What They Do.

The Crisis and the Triumph, typeset as a poem by Jim Murray.

C.L.R. James et al, Introduction to Facing Reality (1958). Lessons of the Hungarian Revolution.

Webb, Constance. "What Next for Richard Wright?", Phylon [the Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture], Second Quarter, 1949, pp. 161-166.

Webb, Constance. "A Few Words About Richard Wright" [obituary], Correspondence [Detroit], December 24, 1960.

Gorman, William. W.E.B. Du Bois and His Work. Originally published in Fourth International, vol. 11, no. 3 (104), May-June 1950, pp. 80-86.

McKinney, Ernest Rice [using pseudonym: Coolidge, David]. "Negroes and the Labor Movement: An Answer to F. Forrest", The New International, March 1946, pp. 89-92.

The C.L.R. James Institute Pamphlet Series (visual presentation)

C.L.R. James and 'The Struggle for Happiness' by Anna Grimshaw & Keith Hart.
Originally published as a booklet by The C.L.R. James Institute and Cultural Correspondence, New York, in co-operation with Smyrna Press, January 1991. 59 pp. ISBN 0-918266-27-0

Popular Democracy and the Creative Imagination: The Writings of C.L.R. James 1950-1963 by Anna Grimshaw.
Originally published as a booklet by The C.L.R. James Institute and Cultural Correspondence, New York, in co-operation with Smyrna Press, January 1991. 48 pp. ISBN 0-918266-28-9

C.L.R. James: A Revolutionary Vision for the 20th Century by Anna Grimshaw.
Originally published in booklet form (comprising pp. 9-43) by The C.L.R. James Institute and Cultural Correspondence, New York, in co-operation with Smyrna Press, April 1991. 44 pp. ISBN 0918266-30-0

C.L.R. James in the 1980s: A Conversation with Anna Grimshaw. "...a slightly edited transcript of a conversation held by Kent Worcester, Jim Murray, and Anna Grimshaw in New York City on April 24th, 1991." New York: The C.L.R. James Institute, 1991. 19 pp.

Introduction to Special Delivery: The Letters of C.L.R. James to Constance Webb, 1939-1948 by Anna Grimshaw (in two parts) (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996).

James, de Tocqueville and Baudrillard by Anna Grimshaw and Keith Hart. 1990.

Remembering C.L.R. James by Anna Grimshaw.
This talk was delivered in acceptance of the C.L.R. James Society's "C.L.R. James Award" at a dinner during the Society's April 2000 conference on James (co-sponsored by the C.L.R. James Institute) at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

The C.L.R. James Institute and Me by Jim Murray.
This commissioned essay was published in the "Insti/tutions" section of the journal Interventions, vol. 1, no. 3, 1999, pp. 389-396.

The Boy at the Window by Jim Murray.
Originally published as the Afterword of Rethinking C.L.R. James, edited and introduced by Grant Farred (Cambridge, MA; Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), pp. 205-218.

Brixton Thanksgiving 1983, poem by Jim Murray.
Published in C.L.R. James: His Life and Work, edited by Paul Buhle (London; New York: Allison & Busby, 1986), pp. 247-248.

Live Interview with Ralph Dumain on "Living Room" (with link to sound file)

The C.L.R. James Institute—A New Model of Scholarship in the Social Division of Labor by Ralph Dumain.

On C.L.R. James's 'On the Spiritual' by Ralph Dumain. 1994, ed. 31 May 2001.

An Introduction to Jeff Perry by Ralph Dumain. 30 May 2001.

Mariners, Renegades, And Castaways: The Acid Test by Ralph Dumain. 31 August 1993, ed. 6 June 2001.

C.L.R. James, Intellectuals, Non-Identity, & the Division of Labor by Ralph Dumain. 20 April 1997.

The Haunting by W.L. Mills. A chapbook published by The C.L.R. James Institute, 1998.

The Richard Wright Connection: Quotations

Martin Glaberman (1918-2001): First Obituaries

Tribute to Tim Hector (1942-2002) from the Center for Caribbean Thought

Sightings/Citings/Sitings. References to C.L.R. James in Current Scholarly & General Literature. (Check periodically for updates.)

Jim Murray, Founder & former Director
Ralph Dumain, Librarian/Archivist & Webmaster

Last update: 23 October 2006
Previous update: 2 March 2004