Wannabe Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

Aisha Harris

eAudio - 2023

BEST READS OF 2023: New York Times Book Review USA Today The Skimm Bookpage St Louis Post-Dispatch / BEST HOLIDAY GIFTS 2023: Publishers Weekly / MOST ANTICIPATED READS OF 2023: ELLE The Millions Essence "Aisha Harris is one of our smartest, most entertaining modern cultural critics (...) which might as well be parlance for, "Read me immediately."—ELLEAisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn to for a razor-sharp take on whatever show or movie everyone is talking about. Now, she turns her talents inward, mining the benchmarks of her nineties childhood and beyond to analyze the tropes that are shaping all of us, and our ability to shape them right back.In the opening essay, an interaction with Ch...ance the Rapper prompts an investigation into the origin myth of her name. Elsewhere, Aisha traces the evolution of the "Black Friend" trope... more