Coon song  

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This reproduction of a 1900 minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Litho Co., shows the transformation from white to "black".
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This reproduction of a 1900 minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Litho Co., shows the transformation from white to "black".

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Coon songs were a genre of music that presented a racist and stereotyped image of blacks. They were popular in the United States and around the English-speaking world from 1880 to 1920.

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