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.
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>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
>
>
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>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]
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