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Minstrel shows popularized characters and songs that treated Black people as comic, lazy, or buffoonish, contributing to the development of 'coon' as a racial slur.
codified and nationalized a set of demeaning archetypes—Jim Crow, Zip Coon, the mammy, the happy-go-lucky “darky,” and the hypersexual “savage”—that translated theatrical caricature into everyday slur...
The word “” began as a shortening of raccoon, itself borrowed into from an / word, but over the 19th century it became a racial slur for Black people through entanglement with minstrel performance, mi...
Racist, dehumanizing tropes about Black people have operated as cultural tools to justify exploitation, violence, and political exclusion from slavery through Jim Crow and into contemporary media and ...