Growing Up “Innocent”

Teagan Richichi — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:48:35 +0000

In America, the notion of childhood innocence is fairly ingrained within our cultural imagination, but who gets that innocence is, like many things, largely dictated by race. The hypothetical child is assumed innocent of knowledge around topics like sex and violence, and the hypothetical child is also assumed White by the White social imagination. For Black children, this assumption of innocence and of childhood itself is often denied, but how it happens is altered by ...

Difficulty Setting: White

Teagan Richichi — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:20:32 +0000

A metaphor for life in America being White is that it’s like having the difficulty of a video game set on easy mode. I first heard this metaphor when I was a teenager, approximately in middle school or early high school, and it’s stuck with me since then. The premise is simple, and the metaphor can be expanded on. It’s not just that White is the easy setting, it’s that those who are playing at ...

Teagan Richichi – Contemporary Racism

Growing Up “Innocent”

Difficulty Setting: White