Aisha Harris, co-host of NPR’s “Pop Culture Happy Hour,” recently released her first collection of essays about the pop culture that helped form her worldview.
“Wannabe: Reckoning with the Pop Culture that Shapes Me” is a memoir in nine essays, each of which unpacks a different pop-cultural trope and examines its capacity to shape us as individuals and as a society.
“The way my brain works is that I have different pop culture references bubbling in my brain all the time and this book kind of feels like that, but still connects things in a way I think people will relate to,” said Harris.
Harris joined WABE’s Jim Burress to discuss what readers can expect from her book and how culture tends to shape our identities.
Christopher Alston contributed to this report.
