Coon

Coon may refer to:

Fauna

Butterflies

• Coon, common name of the butterfly Astictopterus jama
• Coon, species group of the butterfly genus Atrophaneura, now genus Losaria
• Coon, common name of the butterfly Psolos fuligo

Mammals

• Coon, an alternative name for Maine Coon, a breed of domestic cat
• Coon, a diminutive of raccoon

People

• Coon (surname)
• Coön (Greek: Κόων, Κόωνος), a Trojan warrior who during the Trojan War wounded Agamemnon

Arts, entertainment, and media

Television

• "Coon 2: Hindsight", a 2010 episode of American animated series South Park
• "The Coon", a 2009 episode of American animated series South Park

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Coon Can or Conquian, a card game

Racially biased usage

• Coon, a racial slur, used pejoratively to refer to a dark-skinned person of African, Australian Aboriginal, or Pacific island heritage, in usage mainly from the late 19th century until the 1970s
• Coon Carnival, the original name for the Kaapse Klopse, a yearly minstrel festival in Cape Town, South Africa
• Coon Chicken Inn, a former American restaurant chain whose trademarks and entrances were designed to look like a smiling blackface caricature of an African-American porter
• Coon hunting, a racist expression referring to seeking to recapture escaped slaves or searching for African-Americans to victimise or assault
• Coon song, a genre of music that presented a stereotyped image of black people
• Coonass or Coon-ass, an epithet used in reference to a person of Cajun ethnicity

Other uses

• Coon cheese, a cheddar cheese produced by the National Foods company in Australia, trademarked COON
• Coon hunting, a shortened form of the sport of raccoon hunting

See also

• Coons (disambiguation)
• Coone (born 1983), hard style and jumpstyle musician
• Coonhound, a type of scent hound
• Koon (disambiguation)