Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort ascending Term Description
4584 Cultural Issues Race Stereotype Superstitious
4589 Cultural Issues Race Subverting a stereotype
4590 Cultural Issues Race Inverting a stereotype
4636 Cultural Issues Race Behaving/becoming "black"

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.
4756 Cultural Issues Race Negro reporting white behavior
4762 Cultural Issues Race Using a Negro as messenger
4816 Cultural Issues Race Behaving "white"
4817 Cultural Issues Race Segregated space
4962 Cultural Issues Race White fear
4980 Cultural Issues Race Negro-lover
5012 Cultural Issues Race Aunt as term for black woman
5302 Cultural Issues Race Economic basis of racism
5312 Cultural Issues Race Jewish

This is listed under cultural identity and ethnic identity, but in "Death Drag" it is very clear that this is a racial difference. The text states, "When he came up the spectators saw that he, like the limping man, was also a Jew. That is, they knew at once that two of the strangers were of a different race from themselves, without being able to say what the difference was" (188). Not sure if it makes to consolidate with the other forms of identifying Jewishness. JHB
5333 Cultural Issues Race Racial resentment
5342 Cultural Issues Race Uppitiness
5372 Cultural Issues Race Aryan
5413 Cultural Issues Race Black foresight

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
5415 Cultural Issues Race Indistinguishable

Whenever a white and black character cannot be distinguished from one another, or when a white character looks black and vice versa. I'm thinking here of Uncle Willy and Secretary in the plane in "Uncle Willy", "Uncle Willy and Secretary side by side and looking exactly alike, I don't mean in the face but exactly alike two tines of a garden fork look exactly alike before they chop into the ground" (244). JB
5418 Cultural Issues Race Black body

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).
5459 Cultural Issues Race Loyal blacks
5599 Cultural Issues Race Native American stereotype
491 Environment Public Store
493 Environment Public Court
691 Environment Public Road
1038 Environment Public Town Square
1078 Environment Public Blacksmith
1255 Environment Public Highway
1394 Environment Public Bus Depot/Bus stop
1399 Environment Public Jail
1495 Environment Public Supply house
1673 Environment Public Pioneer settlement
1756 Environment Public Filling Station
1839 Environment Public Zoo
1942 Environment Public Church
2014 Environment Public Alley
2039 Environment Public Street
2215 Environment Public Golf course
2262 Environment Public Store porch
2539 Environment Public Bridge
2765 Environment Public Sidewalk
2769 Environment Public Train Station/Train depot
2806 Environment Public Pasture

There is already an entry for Domestic Space -> Pasture. This refers to a pasture that is not part of a domestic space. JB
3314 Environment Public Academic quad / quadrangle
3405 Environment Public Post office
3493 Environment Public Restaurant
3496 Environment Public Store window
3500 Environment Public Clock tower
3547 Environment Public School
3580 Environment Public Drawbridge
3623 Environment Public Chapel
3869 Environment Public Church steeple
3960 Environment Public Railroad tracks
4043 Environment Public Town hall
4092 Environment Public Courtroom
4235 Environment Public Bank
4253 Environment Public Drugstore
4265 Environment Public Cafe
4320 Environment Public Art museum
4412 Environment Public Barber shop
4430 Environment Public Architecture
4497 Environment Public Telegraph office
4524 Environment Public Poolhall
4616 Environment Public Lavatory
5200 Environment Public Courthouse
5310 Environment Public Airfield
5508 Environment Public Park
1056 Themes and Motifs Psychological Peace
1301 Themes and Motifs Psychological Paranoia
1310 Themes and Motifs Psychological Madness
1333 Themes and Motifs Psychological Obsession
1404 Themes and Motifs Psychological Terror
1774 Themes and Motifs Psychological Motivation
1807 Themes and Motifs Psychological Manipulation
1864 Themes and Motifs Psychological Will to endure
1921 Themes and Motifs Psychological Trauma
2206 Themes and Motifs Psychological Learning disability
2360 Themes and Motifs Psychological Unconscious
3426 Themes and Motifs Psychological Disembodiment
4224 Themes and Motifs Psychological Repression
4573 Themes and Motifs Psychological Denial
4619 Themes and Motifs Psychological Rationalizing
765 Cultural Issues Progress Roads
958 Cultural Issues Progress Clearing the land
980 Cultural Issues Progress Trains
1309 Cultural Issues Progress Country to city

To capture the movement of people from the countryside to more urban areas, including moving from Frenchman's Bend to Jefferson, as Zilphia Gant's mother and so many Snopeses do. SR
1416 Cultural Issues Progress Cars
1435 Cultural Issues Progress Elevator
1457 Cultural Issues Progress Infrastructure

This is a blanket term for any infrastructural development that happens. This is used for something that is either not covered, or when infrastructure in general improves. The specific example here is about Jefferson not being developed enough for it to have anything the Union Army might want. JB
1662 Cultural Issues Progress Historical
1665 Cultural Issues Progress Technological
1675 Cultural Issues Progress Religion
1676 Cultural Issues Progress Education
1677 Cultural Issues Progress Requirements
1684 Cultural Issues Progress Ironies of
1694 Cultural Issues Progress Frontier times
1697 Cultural Issues Progress Building structure
1703 Cultural Issues Progress Mail delivery
1706 Cultural Issues Progress Renovations
1708 Cultural Issues Progress Frontier to civilization
2060 Cultural Issues Progress Electrification

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