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In what has become a highly controversial topic, American institutions have come under fire as a growing number of committed scholars and advocates for social justice have caught the vapors and awoke to the fact that these institutions have been designed with the sole intent of organizing American social and economic life to the advantage of its predominantly white ruling class. In the case of many Black Americans and other people of color, this often means that their communities and lives will be exploited to the fullest.

In his highly critical analysis of these institutions, Ivan Kilgore explains unlike any scholar the various cultural and institutional forces that have operated to preserve this agenda. Here, the backdrop of this thesis centers around his 39 years of a short life and experiences in the streets of American ghettos, college hallways, and prison dwellings where the day-to-day struggle to rise above the mire of poverty, injustice, racism, miseducation, and violence in American society have taken him on a journey that, prior to his 26th birthday, had placed him before two separate juries for capital murder; sent him across the continental United States and into the bowels of Mexico to traffic illicit drugs and other forms of destruction prior to a life commitment to the California Department of Corrections.

In response to Ivan’s story, the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper would receive sweeping reviews that prompted countless individuals in the Bay Area to join mentoring organizations. (Google Ivan Kilgore and find out more about his wrongful conviction, radio interviews, articles, blogs and music). Joining the farvor will be renowned Professor Alvin F. Poussaint of Harvard University and the late professor John Irwin of San Francisco State University, who would greatly assist to inspire Ivan to bring this project to life.Domestic Genocide is constructed around nine chapters that at first reading seem to stand independent of each other. Part autobiography, part academic, poetry, prose, spoken word, and Urban nonfiction, it captures the voice of those afflicted by the blowback of capitalism. It undoubtedly makes for an incredible case study of how the various institutional forces impact many poor, black and oppressed Americans.Excerpts to Domestic Genocide are available at http://www.willisraisedblog.wordpress.com.