The West was founded under a Christian theological epistemology that believed in a hierarchical Great Chain of Being, Lost Tribes, the Curse of Ham and Cush, Original Sin, and a host of narratives that could be teleologically bent to the new bourgeois, racial, colonial agenda. This became the template and vehicle for the first 300 years of modern Western epistemology until it was displaced by the still hegemonic secular, scientific rational epistemology, but it has never really diminished in terms of its significance on the world stage. Because even the fixed dominant categories in this new matrix of difference fluctuated and were arbitrarily socially constructed and subject to the whims of power, relying on essentialized physiognomic criteria along invented axes of relational self/other difference, evasions of, and resistances to, this whole system have been ubiquitous, constituting literal and figurative maroon spaces, internal ruptures and destabilizations.