... This chapter adds the Indian Ocean to studies of the slavery. It complicates postapartheid portrayals of the origins of South African Indians by comparing indenture with the enslavement of Indians in the Cape and the indenture of the indigenous Khoikhoi some one hundred years earlier. I...

... The introduction offers a brief history and context of South Africa to understand colonial apartheid forms of racialization and the enduring impact of the racial hierarchy in South Africa. It examines how the category “Indian” emerges and untangles the merchant middleman class from the indenture...

... annexation second slavery indenture colonialism labor ...

... Indentured Indians Indian Ocean Agnes Sam Suicide Khoikhoi ...

... Indian Ocean colonial racialization Asian racialization Asian capitalism indenture ...

... Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee photography citizenship indentured labor archives ...

... by returning to their predecessor, the ex-indentured Indian “Asiatic” trader, two adjacent figures that have represented the threat of Asian capitalism at different moments in South Africa. It explores the colonial triangulation between Chinese/Asian, Black/African, and white/European and the endurance...

... a more orderly populace, subject to the will of the colonial state and integrated into market economies—clashed with the will of most of the island residents. Their plans for colonization and indenture demonstrated how easily such labor control coexisted with projects of second slavery. With the United...

... unconscious, the author stresses the photographic archive’s role as a negative of empire. By charting the ways that the “coolie,” or indentured laborer, comes in and out of focus as a member of the imperial community, Moser suggests that the very images used to constitute imperial citizenship might also...

...Preface The preface outlines three major events that have been central to writing and redrafting Indenture Aesthetics . First, the author explores the impact of his mother’s death on his relationship to time and space (Africa) and how the feeling of being unhinged informed the revisions...

... invested in expanding how we understand race and relationality in South Africa. Their aesthetic practices engage family photoarchives, the indenture experience, queer sexuality and erotics, joy and pleasure, and interracial Afro- Indianness, echoing similar themes and concerns of an earlier generation...