‘Six packs and big muscles, and stuff like that’. Primary school‐aged South African boys, blackFootnote¹

1. Apartheid classified people according to race: black or African, Indian, white and coloured. Race continues to be a significant marker in post‐apartheid South Africa, particularly in terms of redress. In this paper I use the term black to refer to young boys in this study.

and white, on sport

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