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Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parent Description
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

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

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

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

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

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

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