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Coon Town
noun
a neighbourhood populated largely by black families US, 1897
Offensive.- Up until fifteen yeas ago, I can remember police raids into “Coon-Town,” the Negro quarter, to dragoon workers to harvest the rice crop. — Benjamin Weintroub (Editor), The Chicago Jewish Forum, p. 26, 1956
- — Maledicta, p. 52, 1986–87: “A continuation of a glossary of ethnic slurs in American English”
- When we cross the railroad tracks into Coon Town, as my schoolmates at George Wallace Elementary School call it, I see big huge cars parked in front of crippled shanties with FOR RENT signs on them. — David Henry Sterry, Chicken, p. 111, 2002
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