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It is with deep sorrow that the Journal of Contemporary Asia announce the death of senior editorial board member Renato Constantino, historian, journalist and social critic.
Until the appearance of Renato and Letizia Constantino's The Philippines: A Past Revisited (1975) and The Philippines: A Continuing Past (1978), modern Philippine historiography has been ideologically dominated by colonial scholars and comprador intellectuals.
Since the publication of the two works, for the first time a comprehensive history of the Philippines that seriously challenged and demolished bourgeois empiricists and comprador thinking became available. These liberating scholarly works not only represent a major re-interpretation of a number of crucial aspects of...