ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to show that collaboration brings clarity of thought, especially in terms of ethical considerations about power-knowledge relationships at the museum frontiers for all parties at the local level, with repercussions that extend to the global. It offers some background information on CWWA and expands theoretically upon the borderlands or frontier' methodology, informed by feminist-hermeneutics that was developed together with CWWA. The chapter then explains two collaborative programmes. It highlights the importance of museums addressing difficult issues such as historical enslavement, dealing positively with the contemporary legacy of racism and breaking out of limiting stereotypical moulds both the dingy' museum and the Black woman as sexual siren' entrapping the white man in her goatish embraces'. Finally the chapter reflects on the nature of collaborative research considered and draws some concluding remarks on the strengths and weaknesses of this effort.
