Problem: After reading Chapter 2 in the Schaefer textbook and the essay, "Handprints in the Dust: On Risk and Beauty", in Palabra, respond to the following questions for your discussion post.
What cultures and subcultures does the author identify as having impacted her? In what ways did they impact her understanding of norms and her development of self? Need Assignment Help?
In what ways can you apply Cooley's Looking Glass Self theory to this author's depiction of what her parents did to modify her appearance, to her own development of "self"?