Coon card
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coon-card-257-9405870
title:
Coon card
text:
Coon cards were anti-Black, racist picture postcards and greeting cards sold in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Coon was short for raccoon, an American mammal; coon was a commonly used derogatory term for African-Americans. Especially after the turn-of-the-century, "the postcard was wildly successful both as correspondence and collectible" and are thus postcards are valuable sources for cultural historians as both a form of epistolary literature and for the bank of cultural ima
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Postcards with anti-black racist imagery
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon_card
date created:
date modified:
2023-11-21T16:12:20Z
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