What is a summary of the essay, The End of White Innocence, from the collection, Minor Feelings?

In the essay, The End of White Innocence, Hong uses literary notions of the loss of innocence in order to discuss the concept of white innocence, and white tears. Hong argues that minority individuals do not experience the same literary narrative arcs that majority white individuals do. Whereas Hong was forced to read and understand the adolescent coming of age stories of white youth, her white classmates were never asked to read or understand her minority reality. Once Hong began reading writers of color, she felt seen and validated. She now works to subvert notions of white innocence in her own writing.