Zone d'identification
Nom et localisation du dépôt
Niveau de description
Collection
Titre
Max Rameau Papers
Date(s)
- 1992-2011 (Production)
Importance matérielle
20 Boxes
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Max Rameau is the foremost and most publically known activist with Take Back the Land. He also leads the Center for Pan-African Development, and has worked extensively with Brothers of the Same Mind and Cop Watch in the past. At the cusp of the housing crisis, Rameau invited several other South Florida-based black activists to meetings held at Marleine Bastien's office, a group that later became known as the Black Response to the Crisis Group. The group decided on taking action in the form of taking over public land and asserting black political leadership over that land. The first action taken was the erecting of the Umoja Village Shantytown, and later housing liberations and eviction defenses. As Take Back the Land progressed to the national level and took on the shape of a movement, Rameau remained its most vocal proponent and figurehead. He has since relocated to Washington D.C. to take on the role as an alternative voice on the housing crisis more strongly. Rameau is a Pan-Africanist by worldview and in political theory, although he no longer frames Take Back the Land as a Pan-Africanist or Black nationalist project.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
The Max Rameau papers (1992-2010) document his extensive activism for the homeless and the poor within the South Florida communities of the African diaspora. The collection will be of interest to scholars and students of movements such as the Umoja Village, the Scott-Carver Tenant Council, Miami Dade Election Reform and Take Back the Land. The materials document advocacy work on behalf of people displaced from their homes as a result of low income housing policies, gentrification, and the U.S. foreclosure crisis at the beginning of the 21st century. The Max Rameau papers also point to connections between activist groups promoting the economic rights of the diverse constituency of the African diaspora which reside in Liberty City and Little Haiti. Finally, the collection serves as a record of Mr. Rameau's work with organizations such as Brothers of the Same Mind, the Haitian American Grassroots Coalition and the Center for Pan African Development.
Mode de classement
I. Activism (various)
II. Brothers of the Same Mind
III. Umoja Village
IV. Take Back the Land
V. Audio-Visual Materials
VI. Posters/Banners
VII. Interviews (oral history)
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
The collection is open for research.
Accès physique
Items from this collection are kept on-campus and may be requested from the first floor Kislak Center in the Otto G. Richter Library at University of Miami.
Accès technique
Conditions de reproduction
University of Miami does not own copyright. It is incumbent on the user to obtain copyright from the original creator.
Langue des documents
- anglais
- français
- haïtien
Écriture des documents
- latin
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Sources complémentaires
Archiving the Fringe by UM Libraries
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