Keywords

Term IDsort ascending Vocabulary Parent Term Description
1585 Cultural Issues History Great Migration

This term is widely used by historians to refer to the movement of some six million African Americans out of the South and into the urban North and West between the First World War and the 1960s. Samuel Worsham Beauchamp, who in the 1930s leaves Yoknapatawpha to live in Chicago in "Go Down, Moses," is an example of a character who participates in the Great Migration. SR
1584 Cultural Issues Race Segregation
1583 Themes and Motifs Values Love
1582 Cultural Issues Region North
1581 Relationships Interracial Marriage
1580 Cultural Issues Sexuality Interracial
1579 Cultural Issues Segregation Marriage
1578 Actions Work Teaching
1577 Cultural Issues Race Racial spheres

TMT: I created this keyword to highlight the differences between the young woman's racial experience in the North and the South, where certain kinds of labor are done by certain races--in this case, taking in laundry by black women.
1576 Relationships Familial Extended family
1575 Relationships Interracial Romantic
1574 Cultural Issues Region The West
1573 Relationships Romantic Extra-marital
1572 Actions Perceptual Ambiguity
1571 Themes and Motifs Values Bad conduct
1570 Actions Communication Without words

When someone communicates by means of something other than words (written or spoken); for example, the envelope full of money Boyd wants Ike to give his mistress, or the verbena that Drusilla leaves on Bayard's pillow.
1569 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Misconduct
1568 Relationships Interspecies Man-nature
1567 Cultural Issues Nationality Old vs New World
1566 Actions Emotional Restlessness
1565 Cultural Issues Sexuality Desire
1564 Cultural Issues Race Shadow of Negro
1563 Actions Perceptual Misreading
1562 Relationships Familial Surrogate
1561 Themes and Motifs Home In nature
1560 Aesthetics Symbolism Blood
1559 Themes and Motifs Values Good conduct
1557 Relationships Interracial Indian-white
1556 Cultural Issues History Civil War as point of reference
1555 Themes and Motifs Past Grander than present
1554 Relationships Interspecies Man-horse
1553 Actions Hunting Setting up camp
1552 Actions Bodily Going to bed
1551 Relationships Interracial Master-servant
1550 Themes and Motifs Naming Using Indians as names
1549 Themes and Motifs Time Travel back in time
1548 Environment Natural Wilderness

I'm wondering how this is different from "woods" and if they two terms might need to be meshed into one. Are woods more domestic or something? LW
I'm using wilderness when it is directly discussed in the text as a presence, a living thing as in GDM (i.e., "the wilderness breathed again" (174)) JJ
1547 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Tomb
1546 Themes and Motifs Objects Crystal
1545 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Face
1544 Themes and Motifs Art Painting
1543 Themes and Motifs Objects Toilet set
1542 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Inscription
1541 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Scandal
1540 Relationships Institutional Minister and parishioner
1539 Actions Interaction, Social Visiting
1538 Cultural Issues Clothes Glove
1537 Themes and Motifs Death Suicide
1536 Actions Economic Delivery
1535 Themes and Motifs Animals Rat
1534 Cultural Issues Law Regulation
1533 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Flag
1532 Themes and Motifs Objects Poison
1531 Themes and Motifs Values Dignity
1530 Cultural Issues Identity, Cultural Yankee
1529 Actions Work Construction
1528 Cultural Issues Government Contract
1527 Themes and Motifs Objects Stained glass window
1526 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Angel
1525 Themes and Motifs Objects Corpse
1524 Actions Emotional Pity
1523 Cultural Issues Gender Patriarchy
1522 Themes and Motifs Objects Horsewhip
1521 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Mental illness
1520 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Audience response
1519 Relationships Interracial Child-adult
1518 Cultural Issues Violence Interracial
1517 Themes and Motifs Objects Dulcimer
1516 Cultural Issues Clothes Formal
1515 Actions Domestic Polish
1514 Environment Domestic Space Parlor
1513 Cultural Issues Race Clothes
1512 Environment Domestic Space Pasture
1511 Actions Physical Curtsy
1510 Actions Physical Reading
1509 Actions Emotional Indifference
1508 Cultural Issues War Insubordination
1507 Actions Interaction, Private Interrogation
1506 Environment Domestic Space Drive
1505 Cultural Issues War Fog of War
1504 Cultural Issues Law Warrant
1503 Environment Time of Year New Year
1502 Actions Communication Messenger

Whenever someone comes to deliver a message verbally in person.
1501 Environment Domestic Space Hearth
1500 Cultural Issues Race Black stereotype
1499 Cultural Issues Race Stereotype mule
1498 Actions Movement Chasing
1497 Cultural Issues Clothes Disguise
1496 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Centaur
1495 Environment Public Supply house
1494 Actions Communication Letter
1493 Actions Physical Digging
1492 Actions Verbal Denial
1491 Themes and Motifs Objects Watermelon
1490 Actions Emotional Empathy
1489 Actions Emotional Surprise
1488 Environment Domestic Space Lot
1487 Cultural Issues War Spoils
1486 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Forrest, Nathan Bedford
1484 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Harvest

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