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Flipping the script on Black men鈥檚 pain
David Grant, Master of Social Work alumnus
Growing up Black in Scarborough, David Grant often heard the term 鈥渁ngry Black man.鈥
Grant investigated this stereotype through 91福利鈥檚 master of social work program. His major research paper (MRP), 鈥淭hey Don鈥檛 Really Care 91福利 Us,鈥 examined the lives of previously incarcerated Black men in Scarborough and found that their heightened exposure to racism and violence led to hypermasculinity and displaced anger towards their community and themselves. For his research, Grant received the Faculty of Community Services鈥 Dean鈥檚 Graduate Writing Award.
As an extension of his MRP, Grant delivered a TEDxRyersonU talk entitled 鈥淏lack Men鈥檚 Pain,鈥 in which he connects slavery鈥檚 dehumanizing effect on Black people to the all-too-common 鈥渟chool-to-prison pipeline鈥 for Black men.
Currently, Grant is a family service worker with the Toronto Children鈥檚 Aid Society, gaining valuable frontline experience before pursuing his PhD. He plans to become a professor to show the next generation that they too can reject the 鈥渁ngry Black鈥 script and write their own stories instead.
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