Netflix's Adolescence Isn't About Race, Except Maybe It Is

Even watching a series about teenagers is a way of trying to enter their world: it should become part of the 'professional update'. While most teachers don't even know what TikTok is

Netflix's Adolescence Isn't About Race, Except Maybe It Is

The hit show provokes an empathy that Black boys seldom get By Rebecca Carroll Everyone is talking about Adolescence, the new Netflix drama that tells the harrowing story of a 13-year-old boy who is accused of killing his classmate, a girl named Katie. As a mother, I watched it as a cautionary tale about the perils of violent incel culture on the still-developing brains of young boys. But as a Black cultural critic who is also the mother of a Bl…