Epistemic and Epistemological Marginality of CADA

This is the concluding chapter. It makes critical remark and suggestions about epistemic and epistemological marginality and traps that make CADA embrace what Herbert Marcuse calls “vocabularies of domination.” The chapter starts with how knowledge-as-power is hidden to give the impression that epistemic democracy has materialized. This is followed by the discussion of how the power-knowledge-nexus can present change that is deceptive. Meaning such a change can maintain the status quo while giving the impression that a revolutionary change as taken place. The chapter ends with the discussion of “blackness” within this deceptive social change to highlight the fact that a deceptive change wearing a revolutionary mask can hide morally problematic aspects of “blackness,” presenting them as benign while hiding their moral harms. Therefore, epistemic and epistemological self-centering is suggested to avoid giving the impression that the powers that be in Europe and North America must consider a given epistemic social reality for it to be accepted or abandoned. Also highlighted are instances in which obstacles to social change can be blamed on Eurocentric social and epistemic hegemony and when such obstructions are due to the abdication of epistemic autonomy by CADA scholars.