“…The institutionalisation of knowledge production in the anglophone Caribbean was held back until the mid‐20 th century, as local research and higher education were only institutionalised in the 1950s, together with the sovereignty of the formerly British West Indian colonies during the 1960s (see G.K. Lewis, 1985, p. 211). The educational system served for a long time to instruct loyal imperial citizens, and higher education was only possible through mobility to the colonial metropole (however, for the rich tradition of social thought in the West Indies before its institutionalization in the mid‐20 th century, see G.K. Lewis, 1983; Henry, 2000; Bogues, 2003; Benn, 2004; see also Cramer, 2022).…”