Kevin Keating Manuscripts
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Abstract
Kevin Keating is a writer and activist involved in the anti-gentrification and anti-Yuppie movements in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s and 1990s. He was a founding member of the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project in the late 1990s. His work is heavily informed by the Situationist International. This collection consists of manuscripts of Kevin Keating's writings focused on anti-capitalist activism in the San Francisco Bay Area dated from the 1980s through 2000s. The bulk of this collection consists of the manuscript for Subversion in Capitalism America: A User's Manual. Other writings focus on topics such as socialism, gentrification, rent strikes, and the Occupy movement.
Biographical Note
Kevin Keating is a writer and activist involved in the anti-gentrification and anti-Yuppie movements in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s and 1990s. He was a founding member of the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project in the late 1990s. His work is heavily informed by the Situationist International.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of manuscripts of Kevin Keating's writings focused on anti-capitalist activism in the San Francisco Bay Area dated from the 1980s through 2000s. The bulk of this collection consists of the manuscript for Subversion in Capitalism America: A User's Manual. Other writings focus on topics such as socialism, gentrification, rent strikes, and the Occupy movement. The manuscripts also include photocopies of contemporary newspaper articles and ephemera collected by Keating.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Kevin Keating Manuscripts; TAM 802; box number; folder number or item identifier; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Kevin Keating in June 2021; the accession number is 2021.028.
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Processing Information
At the time of accessioning, materials in this collection were rehoused in an archival box, and described on the collection-level with a folder-level inventory.
