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Analysis Of Zip Coon
The lazy, weak, easily frighten as a coon. The zipcoon is more than that the coon caricature was one of the stock characters of the minstrel show. Audiences laughed at the ignorant, lazy, slow-talking fool who voided work and other responsibilities. With African Americans freed by the Civil War, minstrel shows transformed the coon into a comic caricature of the emancipated Black, either a "Zip Coon" or an "Urban Coon". Zip Coons were urban Black dandies, who "put on airs" by dressing up fancy in imitation of affluent Whites.
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