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Book Description: <i>Contested Representations</i> examines the controversy surrounding the 'Into the Heart of Africa' exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto in 1989 90. The exhibit was meant to travel throughout the US and Canada but four major museums cancelled their contracts due to its controversial nature. <P>With this richly textured account of the ways in which the exhibit became the site of an expansive and explosive discussion of representation, racism, and power, Butler asks why the exhibit failed for so many people. In the process, she discusses issues of curatorial authority, institutional politics, legacies of colonialism, traditions of representing Africa, the politics of irony, and reflexive museology. 'Into the Heart of Africa' is one of two landmark exhibits (the other being the 1988 'The Spirit Sings') that are paradigmatic for museum studies. The combination of race, postmodernism, colonialism, community activism, and heated debates in the ROM controversy, still leaves it in a class by itself. This exhibit continues to be cited, debated, and used as reference points by Africanists, art historians, museologists, cultural anthropologists, and historians. <P>Originally published in 1994, this case study is now available in an affordable paperback edition with a new preface by Anthony Shelton at the UBC Museum of Anthropology and an afterword by the author, outlining recent ROM practices in relation to the black community and representing Africa.

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