Cultural Issues: Race Behaving/becoming "black"
Description
This tag is used when a white character's appearance or behavior is associated with "blackness." Examples: when Jason Compson says in The Sound and the Fury that Miss Quentin's promiscuous behavior means she is "acting like a nigger" (181) or when Vardaman Bundren notes how his brother Cash's injured foot and his brother Jewel's burned back are turning black, "like a nigger's foot" or back (224). The trope isn't simply descriptive: it implies a loss of status, a threat to one's racial identity.
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Aryan
- Aunt as term for black woman
- Behaving "white"
- Black body
- Black family working for white
- Black foresight
- Black incarceration
- Black property ownership
- Black stereotype
- Chickasaw
- Clothes
- Colored people as acceptable terminology
- Colorism
- Disenfranchisement
- Division
- Economic basis of racism
- Equal rights
- Etiquette
- Friendly interaction
- Genealogy
- Hierarchical
- Imaginary Negro men
- Indistinguishable
- Inequalities
- Integration
- Inverting a stereotype
- Jewish
- Ku Klux Klan
- Law
- Loyal blacks
- Masquerade
- Miscegenation
- Mixed race
- Naming
- Native American
- Native American stereotype
- Negro reporting white behavior
- Negro-lover
- Passing
- Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
- Race as a form of behavior
- Racial consciousness
- Racial identity
- Racial resentment
- Racial spheres
- Racist child
- Riots
- Rules / norms for addressing whites
- Segregated space
- Segregation
- Self emancipation
- Self-abnegation
- Shadow of Negro
- Solidarity
- Stereotype black women's sexual promiscuity
- Stereotype cannibalism
- Stereotype eyes
- Stereotype lower intelligence
- Stereotype mule
- Stereotype Superstitious
- Stereotype sweat
- Stereotype: smell
- Stereotype: teeth
- Subservient / Obsequious to whites
- Subverting a stereotype
- Uncle as term for black man
- Uncle Tom
- Uppitiness
- Using a Negro as messenger
- White fear
- White race
- White savior
- White supremacists
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Race›Behaving/becoming "black" | Race›Race as a form of behavior
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Infection | Health and Illness›Injury | Health and Illness›Medicine | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin | Philosophical›Metaphysics
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving "white" | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Southern dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›House
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Movement›Hiding | Movement›Running | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving "white" | Race›Behaving/becoming "black" | Race›Racial identity
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Emotional›Disappointment | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Marital›Divorce
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving/becoming "black" | Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Blackstone | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Stereotype librarian / school teacher | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Cultural Issues: Education›Parenting | Education›Truancy | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Prejudice›Racism | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Uncle-niece
Aesthetics: Diction›Misogynistic wording | Diction›Racist term | Tone›Sarcastic
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Race›Behaving/becoming "black" | Race›Stereotype black women's sexual promiscuity | Religion›Damnation | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Diction›Racist term
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Pasture | Natural›Ditches | Natural›Woods
Actions: Interaction, Private›Interrogation | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving/becoming "black" | Race›Stereotype black women's sexual promiscuity | Sexuality›Disgust with sex | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Sexuality›Sexual passion
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister