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Street dreams and hip hop barbershops

by Brad Weiss · 2009

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For young men in urban Tanzania, barbershops are sites of the struggle to earn a living amid economic crisis. This study grapples with the implications of globalization and neoliberalism for urban youth in Africa today, exploring urban Tanzanians' complex, new ways of understanding their place in the world.

Social life and customsBarbershopsYoung menUrban youthPopular cultureHip-hopYouth, africaPopular culture, africaAfrica, social life and customsYouth