Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Term Description
556 Cultural Issues Economy Bargaining
4410 Cultural Issues Entertainment Barnstorming
1978 Cultural Issues Entertainment Baseball
5247 Cultural Issues Entertainment Basketball
2141 Cultural Issues Clothes Bathing suit
2972 Cultural Issues Clothes Bathrobe
5449 Cultural Issues History Battle of Britain
2522 Cultural Issues History Battle of Bull Run
5020 Cultural Issues History Battle of Shiloh|Pittsburg Landing
3001 Cultural Issues Entertainment Beach resort
4185 Cultural Issues Food Bear meat
1826 Cultural Issues Clothes Beaver hat
2575 Cultural Issues Alcohol Beer
4816 Cultural Issues Race Behaving "white"
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.
3367 Cultural Issues Education Being well read / erudite
5169 Cultural Issues Clothes Belt
1471 Cultural Issues Religion Bible
303 Cultural Issues Slavery Biblical analogy
293 Cultural Issues Slavery Biblical curse
4888 Cultural Issues Migration Big Bottom
288 Cultural Issues Slavery Big house vs quarters
1142 Cultural Issues Law Bill of sale
3040 Cultural Issues Sexuality Birth control
4710 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Birth defect
2209 Cultural Issues Ritual Birthday
2210 Cultural Issues Food Birthday cake
2338 Cultural Issues Class Birthright
5677 Cultural Issues Food Biscuits
3748 Cultural Issues Gender Bitch
4397 Cultural Issues War Bivouac fires
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).
2948 Cultural Issues Race Black family working for white
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
3116 Cultural Issues Race Black incarceration
996 Cultural Issues Race Black property ownership
1500 Cultural Issues Race Black stereotype
4140 Cultural Issues Gender Black women
3101 Cultural Issues Crime Blackmail
3531 Cultural Issues Clothes Blanket
4458 Cultural Issues Religion Blessing
3248 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Blind
1623 Cultural Issues Class Blood
3283 Cultural Issues Entertainment Boat race
1640 Cultural Issues Gender Body
5516 Cultural Issues War Bombing
1657 Cultural Issues Clothes Bonnet
569 Cultural Issues Alcohol Bootlegging
722 Cultural Issues Crime Bootlegging
3932 Cultural Issues Economy Bootlegging
2225 Cultural Issues Clothes Boots
2673 Cultural Issues Food Bread
865 Cultural Issues Food Breakfast
940 Cultural Issues Crime Breaking and entering
2584 Cultural Issues Crime Bribe

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
4678 Cultural Issues Clothes Bridal
3624 Cultural Issues Class British nobility
3488 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Broken bones
5618 Cultural Issues Food Brunswick stew
1697 Cultural Issues Progress Building structure
4685 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Bullet hole
4230 Cultural Issues Government Bureaucracy
4409 Cultural Issues Law Burglary
4935 Cultural Issues History Burr conspiracy
5679 Cultural Issues Food Buttermilk
1313 Cultural Issues Economy Buying a house
5609 Cultural Issues Slavery Buying slaves
4964 Cultural Issues Violence By police
5553 Cultural Issues Technology Cadillac
3940 Cultural Issues Food Cake
4454 Cultural Issues Religion camp meeting
4823 Cultural Issues War Campaign
4955 Cultural Issues Politics Campaigning
2475 Cultural Issues Food Candy
784 Cultural Issues Food Cannibalism
4252 Cultural Issues Clothes Cap
1962 Cultural Issues War Capture
2301 Cultural Issues Technology Car
4593 Cultural Issues Crime Car theft
4465 Cultural Issues Technology Car tire
2226 Cultural Issues History Carpetbaggers
1416 Cultural Issues Progress Cars
4390 Cultural Issues Class Caste system
2571 Cultural Issues Violence Castration
4275 Cultural Issues War Casualties of war
2808 Cultural Issues Religion Catholicism
2544 Cultural Issues Crime Cattle rustling
5750 Cultural Issues Sexuality Celibacy
4805 Cultural Issues Ritual Cemetery decorations
5283 Cultural Issues Law Chain gang
2137 Cultural Issues Religion Challenge

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
2920 Cultural Issues Alcohol Champagne
4736 Cultural Issues Law Chancellor
3395 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Change of environment

Created for people like Melisandre Backus Harriss's children who relocate to Europe for their health.--LW
4271 Cultural Issues Clothes Changing clothes
2047 Cultural Issues Modernity Changing customs
2294 Cultural Issues Gender Changing relationships

Any time the changing norms and values surrounding gender are commented upon. JB
3297 Cultural Issues Education Chapel Service (morning prayers)
3829 Cultural Issues Gender Chastity / purity
3688 Cultural Issues Gender Chauvinism / Misogyny

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