Subject: Re: SEEKING ENOLA GAY ARTICLE
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NIGEL WORDEN ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: I've just read your message on museum-l.  I am also planning an
: assignment for my Museum Studies diploma students next year on the
: Enola Gay exhibit and posted a request for help with ideas for
: readings on the public-h newsgroup.  The controversy has much
: relevance to museological issues here in South Africa, but it's hard
: getting material and we have to plan far in advance.  Would you mind
: sending me any bibliographic references you have?  I'm particularly
: keen to get references to good newspaper articles which I can then
: order through ILL. And if you do get the Air Force News article, I'd
: really appreciate a copy - perhaps I could send something of
: interest to you from here or else organise a draft payment for the
: postage. Anyhow, let's keep in touch as to how our respective
: assignments work out.
: Many thanks

        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.
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                                Ken Heard
                                Consultant Museologist
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                                Technology and Transport Museums Sector
                                Canadian Museums Association
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