Roland Sintos Coloma
Biographic Data
| ID | 294888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roland Sintos Coloma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roland Sintos |
| FAMILY NAME | Coloma |
| SIGNATURE | COLOMA R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0375-517X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
From Invisibility to Insurgency: Asian American Youth Interventions
This introduction to the special issue positions Asian American youth as theorists, intellectuals, and knowledge producers whose analyses are constitutive of, rather than supplementary to, educational research. Against the backdrop of intensifying anti-Asian racism, demographic growth, and ongoing curriculum censorship, Asian American youth continue to transform grief into grassroots mobilization and connect anti-Asian hostility to the longer his…
Local work on global educational justice: Three Detroit projects reimagining university-school partnerships
Becoming Otherwise: Michel Foucault and Educational Research in the United States
A blueprint for educational criticism through Edward W. Said Edward Said and education: By Zeus Leonardo. Routledge, 2020
Dissecting Anti-Asian Racism Through a Historical and Transnational AsianCrit Lens
The primary focus of this paper is twofold: to demarcate the epistemic erasure of societal knowledge and narratives of Asian Americans as braided with other forms of anti-Asian racism by tracing its historical roots in orientalism, colonialism, and imperialism; and to redress such erasure by foregrounding transnational perspectives and Asian American Critical Race Theory (AsianCrit). By attending to historical and ongoing experiences of migration…
Education and #StopAsianHate: A global conversation
The COVID-19 pandemic has witnessed an increase and amplification of anti-Asian racism and violence across the globe. Stop AAPI Hate1 in the United States and the COVID-19 Racism Incident Report2 in Australia have documented this rising overt racism and violence against Asians. The killings of 6 Asian women in the United States in 2021, which was racially motivated, highlighted and brought this racial injustice to the fore
Reckoning with Anti-Asian Violence: Racial Grief, Visionary Organizing, and Educational Responsibility
This commentary is an edited transcription of a historic and dynamic discussion on “Reckoning with Anti-Asian Violence” among a distinguished panel of elected legislators, community leaders, and academic researchers. This discussion took place virtually as a presidential session during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association on April 11, 2021, in response to the increasing attention as well as escalating fear due to an…
Unresolved feelings: Notes on pleasure and pain from an accidental educator
This essay – written autobiographically as a confession – charts uncomfortably and reflexively salient experiences and emotions of a queer educator of color. It unveils and analyzes unresolved feelings as messy examples in his journey as an urban school teacher, as a graduate student, and eventually as a university academic and administrator. In particular, it foregrounds the pleasure-pain dynamic that will be addressed, although often intertwine…
Decolonizing Urban Education
Drawing insights primarily from Ethnic Studies, this essay is broken into the following components: outlining the elusive task of defining urban; delineating three decolonizing moves in relation to representation, structure, and affect; and ending with the ongoing struggles for Ethnic Studies in PK-12 schools and higher education. The goal is to sharpen nuestra facultad and deeply engage with el sitio y la lengua of urban schools and communities …
The Queer Love Project
Research Article| April 01 2020 The Queer Love Project: AESA, Fatigue, and Building the Body of an Organization Boni Wozolek; Boni Wozolek Boni Wozolek is currently an assistant professor of education at Penn State University, Abington College. Her work considers questions of equity and access at the intersections of race, sexual orientations, and gender with its multiple expressions and identities. Dr. Wozolek serves on the executive council of …
Ageing transmigrants and the decolonisation of life course
This paper examines how ageing transmigrants engage in practises that serve to decolonise life course in order to create increased opportunities to live well. It analyses the experiences of Jamaican Canadian older adults (age 60 and older) who decided to remain in Canada, return to Jamaica, or travel between countries after retirement. As transmigrants with racialised minority and diasporic backgrounds, they grapple with questions of financial, s…
Queering Asian Canada: Troubling Family, Generation, and Community
This article argues that a queer perspective on Asian Canadian studies can open new inquiries and simultaneously trouble the centrality of family, generation, and community in documenting and examining racialized minority and diasporic groups. By rethinking these analytical concepts through queer possibilities and interventions, research into Asian Canada can become more inclusive and transgressive, and can foreground alternative queer kinships w…
Looking Back, Looking Forward
In January 2017, I proposed to my fellow editors of Educational Studies that the journal ought to develop a special issue in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the American Educational Studies
Asian Canadian Studies Reader
Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon’s Asian Canadian Studies Reader brings together essential writings by leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore the vibrancy of the diverse Asian diaspora in Canada
Dare We Build a New Global Order
AESA President-elect Roland Sintos Coloma (Northern Kentucky University) and the 2018 Program Committee are pleased to announce the theme for the 2018 Annual Meeting
We are here because you were there: On curriculum, empire, and global migration
If knowledge production is indelibly central to curriculum inquiry, then a critical investigation into the conditions of racialized minority and diasporic subjects in general and of Filipina/os in particular can shed light on the intersection of curriculum, empire, and global migration, a topic which has received relatively little attention in curriculum studies. Racialized and diasporic subjects resist efforts to erase their marginalization, and…
There's Hardly Anything Left: Poverty and the Economic Insecurity of Elderly Filipinos in Toronto
As the Canadian population becomes more racially diverse, so does its elderly population. This article focuses on elderly Filipinos, whose country of origin has become the largest source of immigrants to Canada since 2006. It draws from a university-community partnership and a mixed method research of surveying 250 and interviewing 20 elderly Filipinos in Toronto to document their economic condition. With seven out of ten living in poverty, our r…
New Editors’ Vision Statement
As the official journal of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Educational Studies provides a cross-disciplinary forum for the exchange and debate of ideas generated from the disci
Ladlad and Parrhesiastic Pedagogy: Unfurling LGBT Politics and Education in the Global South
This article examines the political and educational activism of Ladlad, the first lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political party in the Philippines and the only existing LGBT political party in the world. Founded in 2003, Ladlad fielded candidates for the 2010 national election in the Philippines, amidst seemingly insurmountable institutional and societal barriers. Audaciously visionary and fiercely resilient, Ladlad’s leaders ena…
Care of the Postcolonial Self: Cultivating Nationalism in The Philippine Readers
The article examines the cultivation of revolutionary nationalism and the production of postcolonial subjectivity under a foreign regime. The analysis centers onThe Philippine Readers, one of the longest published and most widely adopted reading series for elementary students in grades 1 to 7 in the Philippines from 1920s to 1960s. Due to its use and scope, the Readers significantly impacted the development of Filipino mind, character, teaching, …
Too Asian?' On racism, paradox and ethno-nationalism
This essay examines the controversial ‘Too Asian?’ article published by Canada's premiere news magazine in 2010 as a case study of media and education in order to produce a sharper analytical grammar of race in liberal, multicultural societies. I argue that the article recycles racial stereotypes, perpetuates the normalization of whiteness and the mythology of meritocracy, and enacts irresponsible journalism. I situate its representation of Asian…
Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility
Looking at these from the vantage points of anthropology, cultural studies, education, geography, history, information science, literature, political science, sociology, and women and gender studies, Filipinos in Canada provides a strong foundation for future work in this area
Homophobias: Lust and loathing across time and space
White gazes, brown breasts: Imperial feminism and disciplining desires and bodies in colonial encounters
This article examines the colonial encounters of gender, race and sexuality in the United States and the Philippines in the early 1900s. It traces the anxieties over US men's moral degeneracy and the representation of Filipinas as libidinal temptations, which mobilised US women's active participation in colonial biopolitics and governmentality. It contends that white women as imperial feminists asserted their principled crusade and superiority ov…
Theory in Educational History
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Destiny Has Thrown the Negro and the Filipino Under the Tutelage of America”: Race and Curriculum in the Age of Empire
The article brings together the fields of curriculum studies, history of education, and ethnic studies to chart a transnational history of race, empire, and curriculum. Drawing from a larger study on the history of education in the Philippines under U.S. rule in the early 1900s, it argues that race played a pivotal role in the discursive construction of Filipino/as and that the schooling for African Americans in the U.S. South served as the preva…
Disorienting race and education: Changing paradigms on the schooling of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
The introduction frames the state of the educational research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) within two contexts—historical and conceptual—in order to develop intellectual and political paradigms that address their specific needs and interests. The historical section illustrates how the varying political status of AAPIs as immigrants, citizens, aliens, colonized nationals, refugees, and racial minority has shaped educational pol…
We are here because you were there: On curriculum, empire, and global migration
If knowledge production is indelibly central to curriculum inquiry, then a critical investigation into the conditions of racialized minority and diasporic subjects in general and of Filipina/os in particular can shed light on the intersection of curriculum, empire, and global migration, a topic which has received relatively little attention in curriculum studies. Racialized and diasporic subjects resist efforts to erase their marginalization, and…
Border crossing subjectivities and research: Through the prism of feminists of color
Drawing on my research experiences as a Filipino American historian, this article explores what Michel Foucault calls ‘subjectification’, the dialectial process of self‐making and being‐made, within the context of ethnic identities and transnational projects. Engaging the work of feminists of color in particular, it outlines three types of subject formations – compartmental, intersectional and constitutive – that foreground the tensions between h…
White gazes, brown breasts: Imperial feminism and disciplining desires and bodies in colonial encounters
This article examines the colonial encounters of gender, race and sexuality in the United States and the Philippines in the early 1900s. It traces the anxieties over US men's moral degeneracy and the representation of Filipinas as libidinal temptations, which mobilised US women's active participation in colonial biopolitics and governmentality. It contends that white women as imperial feminists asserted their principled crusade and superiority ov…
Putting queer to work: Examining empire and education
Using Stuart Hall’s concept of articulation, which sutures seemingly incongruent analytics, this article juxtaposes queer theorizing and postcolonial projects in order to contribute to the examinations of empire, education and decolonization. It foregrounds the queer approaches of working within, through and beyond the framework of sexuality to investigate the themes of exclusion, normalization, and subject position and agency. It offers a review…
Who's Afraid of Foucault? History, Theory, and Becoming Subjects
According to historian-philosopher Michel Foucault, “Each society has its regime of truth, its ‘general politics' of truth: that is, the types of discourse which it accepts and makes function as true; the mechanisms and instances which enable one to distinguish true and false statements, the means by which each is sanctioned; the techniques and procedures accorded value in the acquisition of truth; the status of those who are charged with saying …
Decolonizing Urban Education
Drawing insights primarily from Ethnic Studies, this essay is broken into the following components: outlining the elusive task of defining urban; delineating three decolonizing moves in relation to representation, structure, and affect; and ending with the ongoing struggles for Ethnic Studies in PK-12 schools and higher education. The goal is to sharpen nuestra facultad and deeply engage with el sitio y la lengua of urban schools and communities …
Ladlad and Parrhesiastic Pedagogy: Unfurling LGBT Politics and Education in the Global South
This article examines the political and educational activism of Ladlad, the first lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political party in the Philippines and the only existing LGBT political party in the world. Founded in 2003, Ladlad fielded candidates for the 2010 national election in the Philippines, amidst seemingly insurmountable institutional and societal barriers. Audaciously visionary and fiercely resilient, Ladlad’s leaders ena…
Too Asian?' On racism, paradox and ethno-nationalism
This essay examines the controversial ‘Too Asian?’ article published by Canada's premiere news magazine in 2010 as a case study of media and education in order to produce a sharper analytical grammar of race in liberal, multicultural societies. I argue that the article recycles racial stereotypes, perpetuates the normalization of whiteness and the mythology of meritocracy, and enacts irresponsible journalism. I situate its representation of Asian…
There's Hardly Anything Left: Poverty and the Economic Insecurity of Elderly Filipinos in Toronto
As the Canadian population becomes more racially diverse, so does its elderly population. This article focuses on elderly Filipinos, whose country of origin has become the largest source of immigrants to Canada since 2006. It draws from a university-community partnership and a mixed method research of surveying 250 and interviewing 20 elderly Filipinos in Toronto to document their economic condition. With seven out of ten living in poverty, our r…
Reckoning with Anti-Asian Violence: Racial Grief, Visionary Organizing, and Educational Responsibility
This commentary is an edited transcription of a historic and dynamic discussion on “Reckoning with Anti-Asian Violence” among a distinguished panel of elected legislators, community leaders, and academic researchers. This discussion took place virtually as a presidential session during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association on April 11, 2021, in response to the increasing attention as well as escalating fear due to an…
Care of the Postcolonial Self: Cultivating Nationalism in The Philippine Readers
The article examines the cultivation of revolutionary nationalism and the production of postcolonial subjectivity under a foreign regime. The analysis centers onThe Philippine Readers, one of the longest published and most widely adopted reading series for elementary students in grades 1 to 7 in the Philippines from 1920s to 1960s. Due to its use and scope, the Readers significantly impacted the development of Filipino mind, character, teaching, …
Dissecting Anti-Asian Racism Through a Historical and Transnational AsianCrit Lens
The primary focus of this paper is twofold: to demarcate the epistemic erasure of societal knowledge and narratives of Asian Americans as braided with other forms of anti-Asian racism by tracing its historical roots in orientalism, colonialism, and imperialism; and to redress such erasure by foregrounding transnational perspectives and Asian American Critical Race Theory (AsianCrit). By attending to historical and ongoing experiences of migration…
The Queer Love Project
Research Article| April 01 2020 The Queer Love Project: AESA, Fatigue, and Building the Body of an Organization Boni Wozolek; Boni Wozolek Boni Wozolek is currently an assistant professor of education at Penn State University, Abington College. Her work considers questions of equity and access at the intersections of race, sexual orientations, and gender with its multiple expressions and identities. Dr. Wozolek serves on the executive council of …
Ageing transmigrants and the decolonisation of life course
This paper examines how ageing transmigrants engage in practises that serve to decolonise life course in order to create increased opportunities to live well. It analyses the experiences of Jamaican Canadian older adults (age 60 and older) who decided to remain in Canada, return to Jamaica, or travel between countries after retirement. As transmigrants with racialised minority and diasporic backgrounds, they grapple with questions of financial, s…
Dare We Build a New Global Order
AESA President-elect Roland Sintos Coloma (Northern Kentucky University) and the 2018 Program Committee are pleased to announce the theme for the 2018 Annual Meeting
New Editors’ Vision Statement
As the official journal of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Educational Studies provides a cross-disciplinary forum for the exchange and debate of ideas generated from the disci
Theory in Educational History
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Disidentifying Nationalism: Camilo Osias and Filipino Education in the Early Twentieth Century
Representing the state of Illinois at a Midwest inter-normal oratorical competition on May 8, 1908, the 19-year-old Camilo Osias began his speech “The Aspiration of the Filipinos” with the phrase: “All nations and individuals love liberty and independence; they hate servitude and restraint” (Osias 1908). Ten years after the United States gained control of his native country at the end of the Spanish-American War, Osias addressed the American spec…
Disorienting race and education: Changing paradigms on the schooling of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
The introduction frames the state of the educational research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) within two contexts—historical and conceptual—in order to develop intellectual and political paradigms that address their specific needs and interests. The historical section illustrates how the varying political status of AAPIs as immigrants, citizens, aliens, colonized nationals, refugees, and racial minority has shaped educational pol…
Putting queer to work: Examining empire and education
Using Stuart Hall’s concept of articulation, which sutures seemingly incongruent analytics, this article juxtaposes queer theorizing and postcolonial projects in order to contribute to the examinations of empire, education and decolonization. It foregrounds the queer approaches of working within, through and beyond the framework of sexuality to investigate the themes of exclusion, normalization, and subject position and agency. It offers a review…
Border crossing subjectivities and research: Through the prism of feminists of color
Drawing on my research experiences as a Filipino American historian, this article explores what Michel Foucault calls ‘subjectification’, the dialectial process of self‐making and being‐made, within the context of ethnic identities and transnational projects. Engaging the work of feminists of color in particular, it outlines three types of subject formations – compartmental, intersectional and constitutive – that foreground the tensions between h…
Destiny Has Thrown the Negro and the Filipino Under the Tutelage of America”: Race and Curriculum in the Age of Empire
The article brings together the fields of curriculum studies, history of education, and ethnic studies to chart a transnational history of race, empire, and curriculum. Drawing from a larger study on the history of education in the Philippines under U.S. rule in the early 1900s, it argues that race played a pivotal role in the discursive construction of Filipino/as and that the schooling for African Americans in the U.S. South served as the preva…
White gazes, brown breasts: Imperial feminism and disciplining desires and bodies in colonial encounters
This article examines the colonial encounters of gender, race and sexuality in the United States and the Philippines in the early 1900s. It traces the anxieties over US men's moral degeneracy and the representation of Filipinas as libidinal temptations, which mobilised US women's active participation in colonial biopolitics and governmentality. It contends that white women as imperial feminists asserted their principled crusade and superiority ov…
Theory in Educational History
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Who's Afraid of Foucault? History, Theory, and Becoming Subjects
According to historian-philosopher Michel Foucault, “Each society has its regime of truth, its ‘general politics' of truth: that is, the types of discourse which it accepts and makes function as true; the mechanisms and instances which enable one to distinguish true and false statements, the means by which each is sanctioned; the techniques and procedures accorded value in the acquisition of truth; the status of those who are charged with saying …
Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility
Looking at these from the vantage points of anthropology, cultural studies, education, geography, history, information science, literature, political science, sociology, and women and gender studies, Filipinos in Canada provides a strong foundation for future work in this area
Homophobias: Lust and loathing across time and space
Ladlad and Parrhesiastic Pedagogy: Unfurling LGBT Politics and Education in the Global South
This article examines the political and educational activism of Ladlad, the first lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political party in the Philippines and the only existing LGBT political party in the world. Founded in 2003, Ladlad fielded candidates for the 2010 national election in the Philippines, amidst seemingly insurmountable institutional and societal barriers. Audaciously visionary and fiercely resilient, Ladlad’s leaders ena…
Care of the Postcolonial Self: Cultivating Nationalism in The Philippine Readers
The article examines the cultivation of revolutionary nationalism and the production of postcolonial subjectivity under a foreign regime. The analysis centers onThe Philippine Readers, one of the longest published and most widely adopted reading series for elementary students in grades 1 to 7 in the Philippines from 1920s to 1960s. Due to its use and scope, the Readers significantly impacted the development of Filipino mind, character, teaching, …
Too Asian?' On racism, paradox and ethno-nationalism
This essay examines the controversial ‘Too Asian?’ article published by Canada's premiere news magazine in 2010 as a case study of media and education in order to produce a sharper analytical grammar of race in liberal, multicultural societies. I argue that the article recycles racial stereotypes, perpetuates the normalization of whiteness and the mythology of meritocracy, and enacts irresponsible journalism. I situate its representation of Asian…
New Editors’ Vision Statement
As the official journal of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Educational Studies provides a cross-disciplinary forum for the exchange and debate of ideas generated from the disci
There's Hardly Anything Left: Poverty and the Economic Insecurity of Elderly Filipinos in Toronto
As the Canadian population becomes more racially diverse, so does its elderly population. This article focuses on elderly Filipinos, whose country of origin has become the largest source of immigrants to Canada since 2006. It draws from a university-community partnership and a mixed method research of surveying 250 and interviewing 20 elderly Filipinos in Toronto to document their economic condition. With seven out of ten living in poverty, our r…
Asian Canadian Studies Reader
Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon’s Asian Canadian Studies Reader brings together essential writings by leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore the vibrancy of the diverse Asian diaspora in Canada
Dare We Build a New Global Order
AESA President-elect Roland Sintos Coloma (Northern Kentucky University) and the 2018 Program Committee are pleased to announce the theme for the 2018 Annual Meeting
We are here because you were there: On curriculum, empire, and global migration
If knowledge production is indelibly central to curriculum inquiry, then a critical investigation into the conditions of racialized minority and diasporic subjects in general and of Filipina/os in particular can shed light on the intersection of curriculum, empire, and global migration, a topic which has received relatively little attention in curriculum studies. Racialized and diasporic subjects resist efforts to erase their marginalization, and…
Queering Asian Canada: Troubling Family, Generation, and Community
This article argues that a queer perspective on Asian Canadian studies can open new inquiries and simultaneously trouble the centrality of family, generation, and community in documenting and examining racialized minority and diasporic groups. By rethinking these analytical concepts through queer possibilities and interventions, research into Asian Canada can become more inclusive and transgressive, and can foreground alternative queer kinships w…
Looking Back, Looking Forward
In January 2017, I proposed to my fellow editors of Educational Studies that the journal ought to develop a special issue in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the American Educational Studies
Ageing transmigrants and the decolonisation of life course
This paper examines how ageing transmigrants engage in practises that serve to decolonise life course in order to create increased opportunities to live well. It analyses the experiences of Jamaican Canadian older adults (age 60 and older) who decided to remain in Canada, return to Jamaica, or travel between countries after retirement. As transmigrants with racialised minority and diasporic backgrounds, they grapple with questions of financial, s…
Unresolved feelings: Notes on pleasure and pain from an accidental educator
This essay – written autobiographically as a confession – charts uncomfortably and reflexively salient experiences and emotions of a queer educator of color. It unveils and analyzes unresolved feelings as messy examples in his journey as an urban school teacher, as a graduate student, and eventually as a university academic and administrator. In particular, it foregrounds the pleasure-pain dynamic that will be addressed, although often intertwine…
Decolonizing Urban Education
Drawing insights primarily from Ethnic Studies, this essay is broken into the following components: outlining the elusive task of defining urban; delineating three decolonizing moves in relation to representation, structure, and affect; and ending with the ongoing struggles for Ethnic Studies in PK-12 schools and higher education. The goal is to sharpen nuestra facultad and deeply engage with el sitio y la lengua of urban schools and communities …
The Queer Love Project
Research Article| April 01 2020 The Queer Love Project: AESA, Fatigue, and Building the Body of an Organization Boni Wozolek; Boni Wozolek Boni Wozolek is currently an assistant professor of education at Penn State University, Abington College. Her work considers questions of equity and access at the intersections of race, sexual orientations, and gender with its multiple expressions and identities. Dr. Wozolek serves on the executive council of …
Reckoning with Anti-Asian Violence: Racial Grief, Visionary Organizing, and Educational Responsibility
This commentary is an edited transcription of a historic and dynamic discussion on “Reckoning with Anti-Asian Violence” among a distinguished panel of elected legislators, community leaders, and academic researchers. This discussion took place virtually as a presidential session during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association on April 11, 2021, in response to the increasing attention as well as escalating fear due to an…
Sociology (26 works) · Political science (18 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Law (17 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (8 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (8 works)