Keywords
| Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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| 2948 | Black family working for white | Race | ||
| 5413 | Black foresight | Race |
Any time a black character appears to have a premonition or intuition about how events will play out. I'm thinking her of Job in "Uncle Willy" who melancholically tags along even though he knows things will end badly. The same could be said for any number of Black servants who are forced to entertain their master's fancies. Dilsey is another example. JB |
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| 3116 | Black incarceration | Race | ||
| 996 | Black property ownership | Race | ||
| 1500 | Black stereotype | Race | ||
| 4140 | Black women | Gender | ||
| 3101 | Blackmail | Crime | ||
| 3531 | Blanket | Clothes | ||
| 4458 | Blessing | Religion | ||
| 3248 | Blind | Health and Illness | ||
| 1623 | Blood | Class | ||
| 3283 | Boat race | Entertainment | ||
| 1640 | Body | Gender | ||
| 5516 | Bombing | War | ||
| 1657 | Bonnet | Clothes | ||
| 569 | Bootlegging | Alcohol | ||
| 722 | Bootlegging | Crime | ||
| 3932 | Bootlegging | Economy | ||
| 2225 | Boots | Clothes | ||
| 2673 | Bread | Food | ||
| 865 | Breakfast | Food | ||
| 940 | Breaking and entering | Crime | ||
| 2584 | Bribe | Crime |
Any payoff to law enforcement or other institution to circumvent the strictures of the law. In The Reivers Lucius Priest refers to this as "blackmail" (112). This is meant ironically. JB |
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| 4678 | Bridal | Clothes | ||
| 3624 | British nobility | Class | ||
| 3488 | Broken bones | Health and Illness | ||
| 5618 | Brunswick stew | Food | ||
| 1697 | Building structure | Progress | ||
| 4685 | Bullet hole | Health and Illness | ||
| 4230 | Bureaucracy | Government | ||
| 4409 | Burglary | Law | ||
| 4935 | Burr conspiracy | History | ||
| 5679 | Buttermilk | Food | ||
| 1313 | Buying a house | Economy | ||
| 5609 | Buying slaves | Slavery | ||
| 4964 | By police | Violence | ||
| 5553 | Cadillac | Technology | ||
| 3940 | Cake | Food | ||
| 4454 | camp meeting | Religion | ||
| 4823 | Campaign | War | ||
| 4955 | Campaigning | Politics | ||
| 2475 | Candy | Food | ||
| 784 | Cannibalism | Food | ||
| 4252 | Cap | Clothes | ||
| 1962 | Capture | War | ||
| 2301 | Car | Technology | ||
| 4593 | Car theft | Crime | ||
| 4465 | Car tire | Technology | ||
| 2226 | Carpetbaggers | History | ||
| 1416 | Cars | Progress | ||
| 4390 | Caste system | Class | ||
| 2571 | Castration | Violence | ||
| 4275 | Casualties of war | War | ||
| 2808 | Catholicism | Religion | ||
| 2544 | Cattle rustling | Crime | ||
| 4805 | Cemetery decorations | Ritual | ||
| 5283 | Chain gang | Law | ||
| 2137 | Challenge | Religion |
When characters actively set themselves at odds with a religious deity or institution, such as when Jewel in AILD gripes, "if there is a God what the hell is He for." EP |
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| 2920 | Champagne | Alcohol | ||
| 4736 | Chancellor | Law | ||
| 3395 | Change of environment | Health and Illness |
Created for people like Melisandre Backus Harriss's children who relocate to Europe for their health.--LW |
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| 4271 | Changing clothes | Clothes | ||
| 2047 | Changing customs | Modernity | ||
| 2294 | Changing relationships | Gender |
Any time the changing norms and values surrounding gender are commented upon. JB |
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| 3297 | Chapel Service (morning prayers) | Education | ||
| 3829 | Chastity / purity | Gender | ||
| 3688 | Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender | ||
| 826 | Chickasaw | Race | ||
| 1291 | Child abuse | Violence | ||
| 1288 | Childhood | Age | ||
| 2775 | Chistian Scientist | Religion | ||
| 662 | Chivalry | Gender | ||
| 5693 | Christening | Religion | ||
| 4515 | Christianity | Religion | ||
| 3529 | Christmas gift game | Ritual | ||
| 3542 | Christmas holiday traditions | Ritual | ||
| 3298 | Church service | Religion | ||
| 3662 | Circus | Entertainment | ||
| 1849 | City government | Politics | ||
| 4737 | Civic | Ritual | ||
| 2412 | Civic boosterism | Economy | ||
| 3033 | Civic events | Entertainment | ||
| 2514 | Civic officials | Government | ||
| 4981 | Civil Rights legislation | History | ||
| 5261 | Civil suit | Law | ||
| 292 | Civil War | Slavery | ||
| 2101 | Civil War | War | ||
| 3183 | Civil War | History | ||
| 1556 | Civil War as point of reference | History | ||
| 3490 | Civil War consequences | War | ||
| 3491 | Civil War consequences | History | ||
| 239 | Class | (First level term) | ||
| 4248 | Class conflict | Class | ||
| 644 | Class consciousness | Class | ||
| 2889 | Clean | Clothes | ||
| 958 | Clearing the land | Progress | ||
| 2362 | Cloak | Clothes | ||
| 466 | Clothes | (First level term) | ||
| 1513 | Clothes | Race | ||
| 1643 | Clothing | Gender |