Keywords

Term ID Vocabularysort descending Parent Term Description
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
5416 Cultural Issues Technology Race

Whenever someone has a different interaction with technology because of their race. This is usually a Black character who is ignorant of modernity. In this example, it is Job in "Uncle Willy" who doesn't know how to use a telephone.
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).
5422 Cultural Issues History Lost Generation
5441 Cultural Issues Progress Gentrification
5443 Cultural Issues Gender And marriage
5447 Cultural Issues Ritual Holiday dinner
5449 Cultural Issues History Battle of Britain
5452 Cultural Issues Religion Pre-Christian
5453 Cultural Issues History Russian Revolution
5454 Cultural Issues Economy Labor unions
5456 Cultural Issues Politics And race
5458 Cultural Issues Economy Laissez-faire capitalism
5459 Cultural Issues Race Loyal blacks
5460 Cultural Issues History Anti-Communism|McCarthy Era
5461 Cultural Issues Government Federal Bureau of Investigation
5471 Cultural Issues Segregation Educational
5473 Cultural Issues Segregation Religious
5476 Cultural Issues Religion Martyrdom
5488 Cultural Issues Agriculture Crop dusting
5489 Cultural Issues War Naval warfare
5493 Cultural Issues Food Coca-Cola
5495 Cultural Issues Progress Road traffic
5499 Cultural Issues Technology Appliance
5500 Cultural Issues Politics Progressive
5501 Cultural Issues Group Mentality Intolerance
5502 Cultural Issues History Post-war society
5504 Cultural Issues Prejudice Anti-Asian
5505 Cultural Issues War Atrocity
5507 Cultural Issues Progress Neon lights
5510 Cultural Issues Economy Shipping
5511 Cultural Issues Technology Steamboats
5512 Cultural Issues Food Animal crackers
5514 Cultural Issues Technology Plastics
5516 Cultural Issues War Bombing
5517 Cultural Issues Government State government
5520 Cultural Issues Economy And racism
5521 Cultural Issues Politics One-Party
5522 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Artificial Limb
5525 Cultural Issues Progress Growing population
5533 Cultural Issues Agriculture Lumber trade
5535 Cultural Issues Education Valedictorian
5537 Cultural Issues Progress Indoor plumbing
5538 Cultural Issues Segregation Economic
5539 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Paralysis
5542 Cultural Issues Technology Atomic bomb
5543 Cultural Issues History Atomic Age
5544 Cultural Issues Government Veterans Administration
5545 Cultural Issues Technology Construction equipment
5547 Cultural Issues Law Legal advice
5548 Cultural Issues History Post-war prosperity
5550 Cultural Issues Education School vs life
5551 Cultural Issues Identity, Cultural And gender
5552 Cultural Issues Sexuality Fear of sex
5553 Cultural Issues Technology Cadillac
5555 Cultural Issues Law Federal vs state crime
5558 Cultural Issues Economy Highway diners
5560 Cultural Issues Religion Redemption
5561 Cultural Issues Religion Salvation
5563 Cultural Issues Segregation Daily life
5564 Cultural Issues Slavery As cause of Civil War
5566 Cultural Issues Politics Local political bosses
5567 Cultural Issues Government Nepotism
5569 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Market-hunting
5570 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Loss of eyesight
5571 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Impaired vision
5576 Cultural Issues Technology Jaguar
5587 Cultural Issues Clothes And age
5589 Cultural Issues Politics Corruption
5592 Cultural Issues Labor Unemployment
5599 Cultural Issues Race Native American stereotype
5600 Cultural Issues Class Social decline
5601 Cultural Issues Technology Lighting

For when a text makes explicit reference to electric lighting (as opposed to light from fires, candles, etc.) JBP
5603 Cultural Issues Modernity Modernization
5604 Cultural Issues Sexuality Fetishism
5606 Cultural Issues Age Agelessness
5609 Cultural Issues Slavery Buying slaves
5610 Cultural Issues Sexuality Racialized
5614 Cultural Issues History 1860 Election of Lincoln
5618 Cultural Issues Food Brunswick stew
5620 Cultural Issues Ritual Wedding
5626 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Malaria
5627 Cultural Issues Progress Tractor
5629 Cultural Issues Education Self-taught
5634 Cultural Issues Clothes Raincoat
5642 Cultural Issues Food Sandwich
5653 Cultural Issues Food Milk
5654 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Venereal disease
5677 Cultural Issues Food Biscuits
5678 Cultural Issues Food Greens
5679 Cultural Issues Food Buttermilk
5688 Cultural Issues War Play at War
5690 Cultural Issues War Red Cross
5693 Cultural Issues Religion Christening
5695 Cultural Issues Nationality Welsh
5696 Cultural Issues Nationality Scottish
5697 Cultural Issues Race Sundown town
331 Environment (First level term) Atmospheric
332 Environment (First level term) Auditory
333 Environment (First level term) Domestic Space

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