Sharad Chari. Apartheid Remains. Duke University Press, 2024. xxiv + 460 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781478030416.

Apartheid Remains is a publication arising from several years of research conducted by the author in adjoining residential areas of two historically oppressed communities in Durban, South Africa.Wentworth is a residential area that was established to house so-called "coloured" people and Merebank to house Indian people during the apartheid era."Coloureds" living in Durban constitute a very small proportion of the "coloured" population of South Africa and the population of Durban, while Durban Indians constitute the largest concentration of Indians in the country and the second largest population group in the city.As the title indicates, the book draws attention to several key features of apartheid that persist thirty years after its demise in 1994.In the prelude, Chari uses photographs-a method he uses throughout the book-to place emphasis on several aspects of what persists from the apartheid era, in particular, an oil refinery that borders both communities.The key issues highlighted here are the impact of the refineries on the health of residents of both communities and the persisting salience of "race" in postapartheid South Africa.In the Introduction, Chari describes the two communities in terms of their proximity to polluting industries and the impact of these industries on the health of residents, the environmental justice organizations that emerged in both communities, their current populations and the economic situation of their members, and the local activism of residents during the democratic era.He draws some of this description from discussions and interviews he conducted with residents.The ultimate objective in the book is to reveal what "remains behind" after the various "conjunctures of power and protest" (10) that mark the history of the two communities.The first part of the book, titled "Racial Palimpsest," focuses on capitalism's "spatial and racial fix" (10) in apartheid South Africa, which involved interventions aimed at regulating the lives of the country's citizens ("biopolitics"), and sets the basis to illustrate how, despite significant changes since 1994, traces of what existed before can still be found in postapartheid Wentworth and Merebank.This is done by providing a description of the South African War between 1899 and 1902, the conditions in the British concentration camps as a precursor of what was to come for oppressed South Africans, and the historical role that both Wentworth and Merebank served as sites for concentration camps during the war (Chapter One), and recollections of the arrival of indentured Indian labourers and other Indian immigrants between 1860 and 1911, the settlement