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Paperback Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa Book

ISBN: 0253020778

ISBN13: 9780253020772

Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa

(Part of the African Expressive Cultures Series)

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During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the "Bills" sought to negotiate lives lived under oppressive economic, social, and political conditions. They developed their own style, subculture, and slang and as Ch. Didier Gondola shows, engaged in a quest for manhood through bodybuilding,...

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