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House of Bondage: A Checklist for Apartheid

In 1967, House of Bondage was published to international acclaim. It told the story of South African apartheid and the ways transportation, housing, identity checks, and education inequities were used to repress an entire people. Now, House of Bondage is reprinted for the first time since its first sell-out edition.

House of Bondage is a brutal book. It’s brutal in its directness, its fire, its anger, and its sense of injustice.

It deconstructs the South African apartheid machine into its constituent parts, making visual connections between policies that wer...

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