3. Adequate research must be taken at all stages when addressing sociopolitical issues and a framework for understanding race should be formally implemented.

​

Curation is a research-based practice and thus a curator should do extensive research on the topics on which they aim to exhibit, especially if they are not from that community. Curators should liaise with experts on topics regarding all facets of the exhibition they are curating and engage in public discourse and research (such as focus groups or preliminary surveys) prior to exhibition production. The curator must understand the theme of the show, its purpose and how it might be received prior to delivering the project. Most exhibitions about race cover many other topics due to intersectionality, so people and experts from other relevant groups and context should be formally consulted when researching and developing a project about blackness and race. While it has limitations, intersectional feminism is widely understood as a framework for dissecting and understanding the nuances of marginalisation it is advisable that curators use this framework to present the intertwined social factors that are related to blackness and existence of black bodies in the Global North.