>         Perhaps of equal or greater relevance for your purposes as a case
> study would be the experience a few years ago of Janine Cannizzo and the
> Royal Ontario Museum.  They had prepared an exhibition "Out of Darkest
> Africa".  The exhibition was cancelled after pressure from the black
> community in Toronto.
>
>         The theme of the exhibition was 19 century white
> attitudes to Africa as demonstrated by the artifacts whites brought back
> from Africa.  Obviously such an exhibition had to deal with racism, but
> to accuse Janine and the ROM themselves as racist because they were
> mounting an exhibition dealing with racism was arrant nonsense.


Indeed - and I'd love to find out more about it.  Do you have any
details or could you give me her (or anyone else's) addresses - e-
mail or otherwise?  Many thanks



Nigel Worden
History Department, University of Cape Town
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