{"id":50886,"date":"2016-12-23T02:15:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T02:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50886"},"modified":"2016-12-23T02:19:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T02:19:21","slug":"on-the-record-georgetown-and-the-racial-identity-of-president-patrick-healy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50886","title":{"rendered":"On the Record: Georgetown and the racial identity of President Patrick Healy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.georgetownvoice.com\/2010\/04\/14\/on-the-record-georgetown-and-the-racial-identity-of-president-patrick-healy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>On the Record: Georgetown and the racial identity of President Patrick Healy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.georgetownvoice.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Georgetown Voice<\/a><br \/>\n2010-04-14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.georgetownvoice.com\/2010\/04\/14\/on-the-record-georgetown-and-the-racial-identity-of-president-patrick-healy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.georgetownvoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Screen-shot-2010-04-14-at-8.44.59-AM-238x300.png?f7e32b\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Patrick Healy<\/small><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/matthew-sheptuck-96261745\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Sheptuck<\/a> (COL \u201910) is an American Studies major writing his senior thesis, which explores how <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgetown_University\" target=\"_blank\">Georgetown University<\/a> has perceived <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Francis_Healy\" target=\"_blank\">Jesuit Father Patrick Healy\u2019s<\/a> racial identity over the years. In his research Sheptuck found that Healy, whom many of us know as the first African-American President of Georgetown and one of the first black presidents of any major American university, was understood as white for much of the University\u2019s history, until beginning in the 1960s, when Georgetown began to \u201cmarket\u201d Healy as black.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sheptuck says he isn\u2019t \u201covertly condemnatory\u201d of the University\u2019s history, knowing that how they framed Healy was a product of the times. But he proposes that going forward, Georgetown doesn\u2019t need to relegate Healy\u2019s racial identity to the \u201cone-dimensional\u201d white or black designation, and should present him as the complex man he was. He also thinks Georgetown needs to look closely at its relationship with race in America in the past. Intrigued by his research, <\/em>Vox<em> caught up with Sheptuck on Tuesday to learn more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vox Populi: So tell me a little about your thesis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/matthew-sheptuck-96261745\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Sheptuck<\/a>: I\u2019m looking at how the University\u2019s changing racial conceptualization of Patrick Healy\u2019s identity fit in relation to how the University thought about race in general. And what I\u2019ve found in my research about Healy, who was president from 1874 \u2013 1882, is two main periods from the 1880s, when Healy resigned as president, up to the present, in which the University talked about his racial identity differently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.georgetownvoice.com\/2010\/04\/14\/on-the-record-georgetown-and-the-racial-identity-of-president-patrick-healy\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Record: Georgetown and the racial identity of President Patrick Healy The Georgetown Voice 2010-04-14 Patrick Healy Matt Sheptuck (COL \u201910) is an American Studies major writing his senior thesis, which explores how Georgetown University has perceived Jesuit Father Patrick Healy\u2019s racial identity over the years. In his research Sheptuck found that Healy, whom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,2895,459,13743,8,6462,820,20],"tags":[7709,25848,25846,7712,7711,25847,25849],"class_list":["post-50886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-campus-life","category-history","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-religion","category-usa","tag-georgetown-university","tag-georgetown-voice","tag-matt-sheptuck","tag-patrick-francis-healy","tag-patrick-healy","tag-the-georgetown-voice","tag-vox-populi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50889,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50886\/revisions\/50889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}