The Inheritance of the Club

About this zine

The Inheritance is the result of a collaboration between nine students at San Francisco State University: five from AFRS 120 (Communicating Realness: Minding the Gap), and four from DES 525 (Graphic Design III: Advanced). The AFRS students crafted the articles and the DES students created the modern protest poster also entitled The Inheritance. Each was inspired by a poster made in 1968 by Dennis Beall called Happiness is a Warm Club, which was created during a period of massive student organizing for programs and policies to better address the needs of students of color at SF State, as well as nation-wide (indeed, world-wide) sense of revolution. These modern pieces comment on what has changed and what has stayed the same in police and government response to current movements for social justice.