Renato Constantino
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Born | Renato Reyes Constantino March 10, 1919 |
Died | September 15, 1999 Quezon City, Philippines | (aged 80)
Alma mater | University of the Philippines Manila (BA) New York University (MA) |
Occupation(s) | Historian, educator |
Spouse |
Letizia Roxas (m. 1943) |
Children | 2, including Karina Constantino David |
Renato Reyes Constantino Sr. (March 10, 1919 – September 15, 1999) was a
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Education and early career
Constantino attended the
When the
At the conclusion of the war, Constantino joined the Philippine Mission to the United Nations from 1946 to 1949 as its Executive Secretary. He worked as a counselor for the Department of Foreign Affairs from 1949 to 1951. These exposures to foreign service became the foundations of a book he wrote about the United Nations.
Academic career
Constantino held professorial positions at the University of the Philippines (Diliman and Manila), Far Eastern University, Adamson University, and Arellano University. He was also a visiting lecturer in universities in London, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Malaysia and Thailand. He served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Trustee of Focus on the Global South in Bangkok.
He wrote around 30 books and numerous pamphlets and monographs. Among Constantino's well-known books are A Past Revisited and The Continuing Past. He also wrote The Making of a Filipino (a biography of Claro M. Recto), The Essential Tañada (On Statesman and Senator Lorenzo M. Tañada), Neo-colonial Identity and Counter-Consciousness, and The Nationalist Alternative. Several of his books have been translated into Japanese and The Nationalist Alternative has a Malaysian translation.
Constantino earned various distinctions for his historical work. He received nationalism awards from Quezon City in 1987, Manila in 1988, The Civil Liberties Union in 1988, and the
Works
- The Miseducation of the Filipino (1959)
- Recto Reader: Excerpts from the Speeches of Claro M. Recto (1965)
- Veneration Without Understanding (1969)
- The Making of a Filipino: A Story of Philippine Colonial Politics (1969)
- Dissent and Counter-consciousness (1970)
- A History of the Philippines (with Letizia R. Constantino; 1975)
- The Philippines: A Past Revisited (1975)
- Philippines: A Continuing Past (with Letizia R. Constantino; 1978)
- The Aquino Watch (1987)
- Demystifying Aquino (1989)
- The Essential Tañada (1989)
- History: Myths and Reality (1992)
Legacy
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For his academic contributions to the struggle against the Marcos dictatorship, his name is inscribed on the Wall of Remembrance at the Philippines' Bantayog ng mga Bayani (Monument of Heroes).[1]
Today, Constantino is regarded as one of the leading Filipino nationalist historians of the mid-20th century, who advocated for a Filipino-centric view of the country's history, alongside his contemporaries Teodoro Agoncillo and Horacio de la Costa.
References
- ^ "CONSTANTINO, Renato R". January 11, 2017.
External links
- Biography Archived December 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- Profile at Bantayog ng mga Bayani