Dr. Ronald Sundstrom, professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco, will deliver a public lecture titled “The Filipino-American Experience and The Post-Racial State” from 4-5:30 p.m. Friday at the University of Hawaii at Hilo UCB 127. ADVERTISING Dr.
Dr. Ronald Sundstrom, professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco, will deliver a public lecture titled “The Filipino-American Experience and The Post-Racial State” from 4-5:30 p.m. Friday at the University of Hawaii at Hilo UCB 127.
The presentation, part of UH-Hilo’s Filipino-American Heritage Month events, is open to the public.
There also will be an academic forum titled “Knowledge, Power and Identity” from 11-11:50 a.m. Friday in UCB 111.
Dr. Celia Bardwell Jones, UH-Hilo philosophy professor, and the Filipino-American Heritage Month committee organized the academic forum and public lecture to tackle sensitive and provocative issues of Filipino identity.
Sundstrom comes from a mixed-race Filipino heritage and was born as a Filipino Amerasian child in Olongapo, Subic Bay. He later had to nationalize in order to claim his U.S. citizenship.
Additionally, he teaches for USF’s African-American studies program and the master of public affairs program for the Leo T. McCarthy Center of Public Service and the Common Good.
Sundstrom was awarded the 2008 Sankofa Faculty Award from USF’s Multicultural Student Services, USF’s 2009 Ignatian Service Award, and was a co-winner of the 2010 USF Distinguished Teaching Award.
His areas of research include political theory, critical social and race theory, and African-American and Asian-American philosophy. Sundstrom has published several essays and a book, including “The Browning of America” and “The Evasion of Social Justice” (SUNY, 2008).
He continues to work on the social and political theories of American and European figures from the 19th and 20th centuries, and the topics of civic belonging and exclusion. His current project involves social research about fair housing and the effects segregation and integration have on democratic life and citizenship.
For more information about the forum and lecture or Filipino-American Heritage Month events, email Dr. Rodney Jubilado at rodneycj@hawaii.edu or Dr. Norman Arancon normanq@hawaii.edu, or call 932-7209.
