Green’s Dictionary of Slang

caledonia n.

[‘Caldonia’, a song first recorded by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five in 1945]

(US black) a black woman who refuses to accept the trad. role into which her birth is supposed to have thrust her.

[US]W.G. Smith South Street 99: You Paddy-talk, you can’t blow with Caldonia.
[US]J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 159: One thing about Cal’donia, if she don’t want you, you are out of luck.
[US]C. Major Juba to Jive 78: Caledonia n. (1920s–50s) pejorative term for a black woman who refuses to adjust to a morally acceptable traditional role.