Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Patrick Healy never directly addressed questions of what his racial identity might have been in the written record he left behind. However, he wrote on a few occasions about “blacks” or “negroes” in a tone that seems to indicate that he saw them as a group he did not belong to.
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Had [Patrick Francis] Healy been born in Maryland, he could have been sold along with the 272 individuals Georgetown [University] President Thomas Mulledy sold in 1838. Instead, it’s because he was born mixed-race, on a Georgia plantation, to a wealthy Irish father who looked after his welfare and paid tuition for several children to attend…
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Because the 19th-century college president appeared white, he was able to climb the ladder of the Jesuit community
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On the Record: Georgetown and the racial identity of President Patrick Healy The Georgetown Voice 2010-04-14 Patrick Healy Matt Sheptuck (COL ’10) is an American Studies major writing his senior thesis, which explores how Georgetown University has perceived Jesuit Father Patrick Healy’s racial identity over the years. In his research Sheptuck found that Healy, whom…
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Father Healy’s Imprint: Past, Present and Future The Hoya Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2004-11-09 Moises Mendoza Every day thousands of students pass by Healy Hall and marvel at its towering steeples and complex intricacies. Few of them realize that the man responsible for this Georgetown trademark was every bit as complex and dynamic as the…
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QUALLEN: Healy’s Inner Turmoil, Our Current Conflict The Hoya Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2015-11-20 Matthew Quallen, “Hoya Historian” School of Foreign Service Last week, President DeGioia accepted a recommendation to scrub the names Mulledy and McSherry from university buildings. The names Freedom and Remembrance took their places. Mulledy and McSherry symbolized what was most odious…
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A British Ireland, or the limits of race and hybridity in Maria Edgeworth’s novels Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2009-09-21 73 pages Kimberly Philomen Clarke A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in…
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Constructing Dialogue, Constructing Identites: Mixed Heritage Identity Construction in “Half and Half” Georgetown University 2009-04-16 55 pages Anissa Jane Sorokin A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Language and Communication This…
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New Book Explores Georgetown Inside and Out Georgetown Alumni Online Georgetown University 2010-11-2010 Historian R. Emmett Curran discusses his recently published book, a three-volume history of Georgetown that uncovers little known facts about the university. True or false? 1. In Georgetown’s first decade of existence, nearly 20 percent of its students came from outside the…