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Columbia University has worked in tandem with New York City to engage in “urban renewal,” aka gentrification, mapping themselves further onto the spaces of West Harlem through processes of capital accumulation and slow violence. Their engagements with such notions as “the greater good” feed into their identity as an “Acropolis” on the hill, perpetuating a form of white nationalism under the guise of “development.”How do urban institutions such as Columbia University operate as power brokers so as to colonize their neighborhoods and craft whiteness internally and abroad?
