Collection ASM0717 - Race, housing, and displacement oral history collection

ASM0717

University of Miami Special Collections

Collection

Race, housing, and displacement oral history collection

• April 2020 (Creation)

6 digital items

Thanks to a grant sponsored by UM Libraries as part of the CREATE Grant Fall 2019 grant Cycle Awards, students under the supervision of Professor Robin Bachin (Associate Professor/Assistant Provost for Civic and Community Engagement) conducted interviews with Miami community members in neighborhoods that have undergone significant transformations over the last several decades.

The Race, housing, and displacement oral history collection documents the complicated and significant interconnections among race, housing, and displacement in Miami during the twentieth century. The 6 interviewees are from various neighborhoods including Overtown, Liberty City, and Little Haiti. The interviews were conducted over Zoom during April 2020.

The following individuals were interviewed as part of this collection:
1. Adrian Madriz: Executive Director of the Struggle for Miami’s Affordable and Sustainable Housing (SMASH)
2. Alana Greer: Co-founder of the Community Justice Project
3. Mileyka Burgos: Executive Director of The Allapattah Collaborative, CDC
4. Nancy Metayer: Candidate for Coral Springs Commissioner; member on the Steering Committee of the Miami Climate Alliance; former member of the Broward County Soil and Water Conservation District; Co-Founder of the Florida Disaster Preparedness Plan; environmental scientist; community organizer
5. Shirley Plantin, Chief Executive Consultant for U-Turn Youth Consulting Firm and the author of The Backstory of a New Reality
6. Yanick Landess, Director of Homeownership Programs at Neighborhood Housing Services of South Florida

This collection is open for research.

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.

Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.

• English

Transferred by Robin Bachin, July 2020.

Interviews in this collection are available online.

Scott Carver Housing History Collection:
https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0480

Other Information:
These oral histories express the views, memories and opinions of their respective interviewees. They do not represent the viewpoints of the University of Miami, its officers, agents, employees, or volunteers. The University of Miami makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of any information contained in the interviews and expressly disclaims any liability therefor.

Finding aid by Kalani Adolpho, December 2020.

• Gentrification -- Miami.
• Housing

• Miami (Florida)

• Bachin, Robin Faith (Creator)
• Madriz, Adrian (Subject)
• Metayer, Nancy (Subject)
• Greer, Alana (Subject)
• Plantin, Shirley (Subject)
• Landess, Yanick (Subject)
• Struggle for Miami’s Affordable and Sustainable Housing (SMASH) (Subject)
• Community Justice Project (Subject)
• Allapattah Collaborative (Subject)
• U-Turn Youth Consulting Firm (Subject)
• Neighborhood Housing Services of South Florida (Subject)

• Oral histories