This is discussed briefly by Michael Ames in ' Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes', 1992 - sorry I don't have the complete ref. here. >> 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 >phone: 021-650-2954 / 021-650-2741 >fax: 021-650-4038 >e-mail: [log in to unmask] > > ______________________________________________________ Barbara J. Winter, Curator tel: (604) 291-3325 Department of Archaeology fax: (604) 291-5666 Simon Fraser University email: [log in to unmask] Canada V5A 1S6 _____________________________________________________