He only returned to the U.S. for lecturing or teaching engagements. All of his writings addressed racism and homosexuality, which caused a lot of controversy, even among the black community. Himself who was black and homosexual, he felt cutoff from the world for being openly gay and black. His essay has examples of both theories being used throughout it such as the Looking-Glass Theory, which is “the imagination of our appearance to the other person: the imagination of his judgment of that appearance, and some sort of self-feeling” (Cooley 10). He also uses the Interactionism Theory which is may actively decide upon a sense of self, rebelling against (or accepting) the expectations of
He only returned to the U.S. for lecturing or teaching engagements. All of his writings addressed racism and homosexuality, which caused a lot of controversy, even among the black community. Himself who was black and homosexual, he felt cutoff from the world for being openly gay and black. His essay has examples of both theories being used throughout it such as the Looking-Glass Theory, which is “the imagination of our appearance to the other person: the imagination of his judgment of that appearance, and some sort of self-feeling” (Cooley 10). He also uses the Interactionism Theory which is may actively decide upon a sense of self, rebelling against (or accepting) the expectations of