Green’s Dictionary of Slang

shuck and jive n.

[shuck n. (1) + jive n.1 (2)]

(US, esp. black) deception, play-acting, obfuscation; also attrib.

[US]S. King It (1987) 204: Ben felt a species of bewildered relief, thinking it had all been nothing but make-believe – a little shuck-and-jive.
[US]S.F. Bay Guardian 25 Oct. 🌐 Someone [...] who thought it would be funny if this African-American character [...] if we were to, and this is a quote, ‘nigger up his voice’. That is to have him speak in a more shuck-and-jive dialect.
[US](con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 251: If you can’t beat ’em, assimilate and stop all this civil-rights shuck-and-jive.
[US]D. Winslow The Force [ebook] All that shuck and jive in the cemetery, you don’t have the money.