Abstract In this article, we examine the role of the University of South Carolina in the urban renewal of the city of Columbia, a medium sized southern city. Drawing on archives of official correspondence and oral histories of neighborhood residents, we chart the various ways by which the university administrators initiated and guided urban renewal and slum clearance in several largely African American neighborhoods adjacent to campus in tandem with the city of Columbia. We place a particular focus on the Wheeler Hill neighborhood to illustrate how university property acquisition occurred alongside the federal urban renewal process, and how the process slowly destabilized and ultimately unraveled the neighborhood. In doing so we contribute to the growing literature on universities and urban renewal and capture the methods and underlying racist intentions through which universities have reshaped the urban landscape. We argue that at a time when universities across the United States are beginning to grapple with their own racial histories, it is crucial to more fully acknowledge the ways in which university expansion has impacted, and indeed targeted, adjacent communities of color.

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“消灭整个贫民窟”：1950 年至 1985 年南卡罗来纳州哥伦比亚大学主导的城市更新

摘要 在本文中，我们考察了南卡罗来纳大学在哥伦比亚市（一个中等规模的南部城市）城市更新中的作用。利用官方通信档案和社区居民的口述历史，我们描绘了大学管理人员在与哥伦比亚市相邻的几个主要是非裔美国人的社区中发起和指导城市更新和贫民窟清理的各种方式。我们特别关注惠勒山社区，以说明大学财产收购是如何与联邦城市更新过程一起发生的，以及该过程如何缓慢地破坏稳定并最终瓦解该社区。在这样做的过程中，我们为不断增长的关于大学和城市更新的文献做出了贡献，并捕捉了大学重塑城市景观的方法和潜在的种族主义意图。我们认为，在美国各地的大学开始努力应对自己的种族历史的时候，更充分地承认大学扩张对相邻有色人种社区的影响，实际上是针对这些社区的方式至关重要。