Keywords
| Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 556 | Bargaining | Economy | ||
| 4410 | Barnstorming | Entertainment | ||
| 1978 | Baseball | Entertainment | ||
| 5247 | Basketball | Entertainment | ||
| 2141 | Bathing suit | Clothes | ||
| 2972 | Bathrobe | Clothes | ||
| 5449 | Battle of Britain | History | ||
| 2522 | Battle of Bull Run | History | ||
| 5020 | Battle of Shiloh|Pittsburg Landing | History | ||
| 3001 | Beach resort | Entertainment | ||
| 4185 | Bear meat | Food | ||
| 1826 | Beaver hat | Clothes | ||
| 2575 | Beer | Alcohol | ||
| 4816 | Behaving "white" | Race | ||
| 4636 | Behaving/becoming "black" | Race |
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. |
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| 3367 | Being well read / erudite | Education | ||
| 5169 | Belt | Clothes | ||
| 1471 | Bible | Religion | ||
| 303 | Biblical analogy | Slavery | ||
| 293 | Biblical curse | Slavery | ||
| 4888 | Big Bottom | Migration | ||
| 288 | Big house vs quarters | Slavery | ||
| 1142 | Bill of sale | Law | ||
| 3040 | Birth control | Sexuality | ||
| 4710 | Birth defect | Health and Illness | ||
| 2209 | Birthday | Ritual | ||
| 2210 | Birthday cake | Food | ||
| 2338 | Birthright | Class | ||
| 5677 | Biscuits | Food | ||
| 3748 | Bitch | Gender | ||
| 4397 | Bivouac fires | War | ||
| 5418 | Black body | Race |
Whenever a Black body is described or there is a touch between a White body and Black body. For example, the unnamed narrator describing Job's body in "Uncle Willy": "he felt like a handful of scrawny dried sticks" (246). |
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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 | ||
| 5750 | Celibacy | Sexuality | ||
| 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 |