1. Langston Hughes's poem talks to the mobility heritage of the Africans and African-Americans. Studying a little about Hughes's biography, why does he refer the specific rivers in the poem? To what moment does the recollection of the Mississippi belong to in History and how does the poet's description of this moment impact on you?
2. Born in Missouri, Hughes is himself a product of the migration North, or internal disapora, referred to by bell hooks in the excerpt of pp. 125-127. According to hooks, how did the "great migration" impact the psyche of black people who moved from the rural South to the industrial North at the turn of the 20th century?
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