Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course NumberDate Dinosaurs in the Hood Smith’s poem, Dinosaurs in The Hood, addresses the contentious issue of racism in present-day America. Though he does not tackle racism directly, he utilizes literal techniques to assist readers to reach a conclusion that the works are really tackling racial discrimination against African-Americans. In the poem, Smith's tone seems to be very informal, even though passionate and evoking. Smith starts by telling that a movie titled Dinosaurs in The Hood be made, "There should be a scene where a little black boy is playing…" (Smith 242). Here, Smith uses the word "hood" to refer to a given locality also known as "the...
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