BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:SFPL Web Calendar BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18089@sfpl.org DTSTAMP:20191207T180000Z DTSTART:20191207T180000Z DTEND:20211001T030000Z SUMMARY:Same Game Different Smokers DESCRIPTION:
Same Game Different Smokers is an exploration of the troubling relationship the tobacco industry has had with the Black Community over the last 400+ years. A collection of archival ads and images are brought together to answer some extremely important questions. We interrogate the complex connection between increased demand for commercialized tobacco, the transatlantic slave trade, racialized advertising, targeted ad placement and the fact that 45,000 African Americans die every year from tobacco-related illness.
Banner image: Left: Illustration of "Jim Crow," the immensely popular blackface minstrel character after whom the system of segregation was named. Right: 2007 ad for Newport Menthol Cigarettes. From the Newport Pleasure series.
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LOCATION:Main Library - African American Center Exhibit Space - 3rd Fl CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER:-PT1440M ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Event Reminder - Same Game Different Smokers END:VALARM END:VCALENDAR