Title: coon - Wiktionary
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Content: Another was having to “ coon ” across a fallen tree that had been felled and limbed to bridge a canyon or gully. ( Georgia, colloquial) To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes. ( African-American Vernacular, of an African-American) To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians . quotations ▼
1994, Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks, An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, page 234: Rather than cooning or tomming it up to please whites ... the black comic characters joked or laughed or acted the fool with one another. Or sometimes they used humor combatively to outwit the white characters. 1999, Nelson George, Elevating the Game, Black Men and Basketball, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 52: If any other forties figure paralleled this humorous, graceful man in appeal it was the dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, who, like the Trotter, funneled his extraordinary physical gifts into mass entertainment for whites yet remarkably, considering the time, avoided cooning. 2005, Kermit Ernest Campbell, “gettin’ our groove on”, rhetoric, language, and literacy for the hip hop generation, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 80: From the classic toasts to the dirty dozens to the early blues 50 and now to gangsta rap lyrics—why not consider it all just a bunch of niggers cooning for the white man’s delight and dollars?