Cassandra's Curse: A Black Life In A Police State

by Eugene Stovall

Overview

KENNY KILEY is a young black man who has grown up in the heart of the Negro district of Central Los Angeles of the late 50s. His friends are his older brother “ALLIE” and their neighbor BERT MACABLE. When Allie and Bert have a serious falling out, a fistfight ends with Bert being vanquished and humiliated. The Kiley boys continue the humiliation and taunting and Bert, upon becoming a LAPD cadet in high school, vows revenge. He snitches on the Kileys when they plan to steal candy from a local theater. Allie is shot and killed by the police and Kenny is left alone.


Welcome to Kenny's world. As a teenager living in the black slums of Los Angeles during the 1950s, Kenny joins one of the toughest gangs in L.A. and the Black Panther Party before shipping out to Vietnam. His entire adult life is spent avoiding the well-planned and viciously executed government program of racial genocide ____ to which even his own woman, HAZEL FLETCHER, a PhD candidate at UCLA’s prestigious Department of Psychology, falls victim when she stumbles on the terrifying secret behind the Jonestown massacre.

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“What is driving all the research activity and experiments in the field is the race to create a remote technological infrastructure which will control the consciousness of what they are calling post-humans and trans-humans.”

“You’ve heard of the term ‘designer babies’, haven’t you?” Hazel says. “The idea is to combine biological material in a test tube with genetic information in a computer. This leads to the encoding and recoding of biological materials. What results is bioinformatics and genomics, also known as tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and cloning.”

“Jolly is way past ‘designer babies’,” Hazel laughs. “ “Jolly and his colleagues don’t believe that anyone has the right to control their own mind. He is working towards the day when scientists can control the minds of the lowest soldier as well as the top general, the minds of the voter as well as the politician.”

Will Kenny and Hazel survive her addiction? Will they emerge from the poverty that threatens to drag them under and the conspiracy that threatens their lives ___ snd those of their children? What happens to Bert? Read their unforgettable story in "Cassandra's Curse".

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012453037
Publisher:	OPC
Publication date:	04/22/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	309
File size:	744 KB

About the Author

Eugene Stovall was born and raised in Oakland, California where he received a catholic education. At the age of eighteen, he was invested into the Knights of Peter Claver, after having attended St. Joseph’s College Seminary where he studied for the Catholic priesthood. Stovall graduated from Bishop O’Dowd High School and attended St. Mary’s College, but left college to join the U.S. Air Force. In 1966, Stovall graduated magna cum laude from the University of California In 1969, used research obtained at the University of Lund in Sweden he obtained his masters degree from the University of California at Davis. Becoming a National Foundation Fellow in 1973, Stovall received his Ph.D in Political Theory from the Political Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Stovall worked for the California State Legislature as well as the University of California’s Institute of Race & Community Relations before going into the corporate world where he worked for Pacific Bell. At the same time Dr. Stovall has been an adjunct faculty member at USF, St. Mary’s College, San Francisco State University and Merritt College. In his ten years at St. Mary’s College, he taught such courses as Greek Thought, Roman, Christian & Medieval Thought & Renaissance, 17th & 18th Century Thought using the ‘shared inquiry’ methodology with ‘critical thinking’ outcomes.

Eugene Stovall’s previous novels include the 2007 IPPY Bronze Medal winner, Frank Yerby: A Victim’s Guilt. In May, 2006, Dr. Stovall hosted a Frank Yerby Symposium at the Oakland Museum attracting scholars from major universities as well as Yerby’s literary agent from the William, Morris Agency. The Hayward South County NAACP honored Stovall for memorializing the great black novelist. Stovall’s other novels are Blood & Brotherhood: A Novel of Love in a Time of Hate, The Idumean Covenant: A Novel Of The Fall of Jerusalem and Cassandra’s Curse: A Black Life In A Police State. Stovall has also authored two pin guides: Stovall’s Guide to Media Pins and Stovall’s Guide to Disney Pins of the Twentieth Century.

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