Core Readings
C.L.R. James, Notes on Dialectics: Hegel, Marx, Lenin (1948), available at https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/dialecti/index.htm.
Raya Dunayevskaya 1972: On C.L.R. James’ Notes on Dialectics: https://www.marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/works/1972/misc/james.htm.
Additional Readings
C.L.R. James, Grace C. Lee, and Cornelius Castoriadis, Facing Reality. The New Society: Where to Look for it & How to Bring it Closer (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 2006)
Brent Edwards, “Black Radicalism and the Archive,” the Du Bois Lectures at Harvard (2015)
Evgenia Ilieva, “Notes on Dialectics: C. L. R. James’s Hegel,” Hegel Bulletin, 2024;45(1):144-165. doi:10.1017/hgl.2024.12.
John H. McClendon, C.L.R. James’s Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism? (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004).
Additional Resources
Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2003) (last chapter includes discussion of International African Opinion, the journal CLR James edited in London with George Padmore and others in the late 1930s).
C. L. R. James papers, 1933-2001, at the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript, https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/archives/cul-6910705; as well as Grace Lee Boggs and Raya Dunayevskaya (collections at the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University in Detroit.