Wacquant's point about the images in the boxing gym is:
A. They create pride in boxing as "the sweet science."
B. They create pride in being African American because so many of the images are of African Americans.
C. They create a "misrecognition" that local boxes are on the first rung of a ladder to championships.
D. They represent ideals of masculinity and are a component of the social construction of gender in the gym.
E. They are photos of "local pugs"—the gym members—in action and celebrate their accomplishments in order to create solidarity, loyalty and esprit de corps in the gym.
C
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