Which theme do the poem "Harlem" and the play A Raisin in the Sun share?

Aspirations
Pride
Afrocentrism
Gender Discrimination*

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How do you get gender discrimination from this??

Harlem
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes, “Harlem” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted with the permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.
Source: Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (Random House Inc., 1990)
Aspirations
Unit 3 Lesson 6 Thematic Structure Quick Check:
1. racial discrimination
2. Afrocentrism and gender discrimination
3. aspirations
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