Hilary Beckles

Sir Hilary Beckles is Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies. Before assuming this office in 2015, he served the University as Professor of Economic History, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Undergraduate Studies, and Principal of its Cave Hill Campus in Barbados for thirteen years. He has had a distinguished career as an academic, international thought leader, United Nations committee official, and global public activist in the field of social justice, minority empowerment, and for slavery and colonialism.

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Published in Overland Issue 240 Spring 2020 · Education

An Epistemic museum for modernity

Hilary Beckles

An important role of universities at this moment in post-modernity is to investigate and interrogate the ideas and institutions that came alive in order to give modernity its intellectual power and socio-economic transformational capacity. The crucible was a world driven by the global governance and entrepreneurship of white supremacy, colonialism.