> 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]