Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Term Description
564 Cultural Issues Sexuality Pregnant out of wedlock
3007 Cultural Issues Land-Use Prehuman landscape
441 Cultural Issues (First level term) Prejudice
880 Cultural Issues Sexuality Premarital
1188 Cultural Issues Age Premature aging
4555 Cultural Issues Religion Presbyterian
1050 Cultural Issues Politics Presidential administration
3664 Cultural Issues Class Pretension
3349 Cultural Issues Sexuality Preventing or avoiding sex
3838 Cultural Issues Crime Prevention
5340 Cultural Issues Economy Prices
786 Cultural Issues Education Primary school
3630 Cultural Issues Education Princeton
4924 Cultural Issues Technology Printing
4222 Cultural Issues War Prisoner
4750 Cultural Issues Law Probate
1045 Cultural Issues Class Professional
4407 Cultural Issues War Profiting from war
244 Cultural Issues (First level term) Progress
5500 Cultural Issues Politics Progressive
2505 Cultural Issues History Prohibition
2298 Cultural Issues Sexuality Promiscuity
862 Cultural Issues Economy Property
1148 Cultural Issues Law Property
1434 Cultural Issues Sexuality Prostitution
2777 Cultural Issues Labor Prostitution

Any instance in which the labor aspects of prostitution are highlighted or discussed. JB

2986 Cultural Issues Crime Prostitution
4771 Cultural Issues Religion Providence
4212 Cultural Issues War Psychological effects
3714 Cultural Issues Education Psychology class
2154 Cultural Issues Sexuality Puberty

For when a text makes reference (perhaps implicitly) to puberty and/or sexual maturing. It was added for the moment in "Miss Zilphia Gant" when her mother makes her get naked and examines her body each month when she turns 13.

4658 Cultural Issues Politics Public opinion
4639 Cultural Issues Technology Public telephone
3745 Cultural Issues Food Pumpkin pie
276 Cultural Issues Slavery Purchase
2388 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Puritan
2869 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Quackery
304 Cultural Issues Slavery Quarters
245 Cultural Issues (First level term) Race
2583 Cultural Issues Alcohol Race

These are racial issues specifically related to alcohol. For example, Minnie in The Reivers declines to drink with too many white people at once (113). There are also other issues around the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol that cut across racial lines. I thought it was more appropriate to place this here rather than in the race category within cultural issues, as that is already getting full, and becomes the alcohol predominates here. JB

4174 Cultural Issues Food Race

This keyword should be used when food is connected to race. Examples could include when certain foods are coded racially or when food consumption is related to racial identity. CR

5003 Cultural Issues Religion Race
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.

3527 Cultural Issues Race Race as a form of behavior
3525 Cultural Issues Race Racial consciousness
3526 Cultural Issues Race Racial identity
5333 Cultural Issues Race Racial resentment
4880 Cultural Issues Group Mentality Racial solidarity
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.

272 Cultural Issues Slavery Racialism

Used to note passages where enslaved blacks are described as members of an inferior species. The Indians in "Red Leaves," for example, say that their slaves "are like horses and dogs." SR

974 Cultural Issues Labor Racialized
5105 Cultural Issues Progress Racialized
5282 Cultural Issues Crime Racialized
5610 Cultural Issues Sexuality Racialized
3705 Cultural Issues Alcohol Racial|Regional stereotypes about drinking
512 Cultural Issues Prejudice Racism
1414 Cultural Issues Race Racist child
708 Cultural Issues Mass Media Radio
3200 Cultural Issues Entertainment Radio
4316 Cultural Issues Technology Radio
4402 Cultural Issues Clothes Rags
5634 Cultural Issues Clothes Raincoat
526 Cultural Issues Violence Rape
4634 Cultural Issues Crime Rape
4852 Cultural Issues Slavery Re-arrangements during War
318 Cultural Issues Slavery Re-enslavement

The clearest example of this occurs in "Raid," when Granny tells the slaves she has recovered from the Union Army to go "home," to their former masters, and they seem to obey her. SR

5322 Cultural Issues Religion Rebirth

Rebirth as either a goal or a result of Christianity. In this particular case, Uncle Willy's church wants him to be reborn in "Uncle Willy". (232

3482 Cultural Issues Entertainment Recital
1652 Cultural Issues Region Reconstruction
2756 Cultural Issues War Reconstruction
3029 Cultural Issues History Reconstruction
2276 Cultural Issues Land-Use Recreation

Any time a natural space becomes a place of leisure or recreation. This includes the "motordome" behind Mr Buffaloe's house, as well has land-use for picnics, campaign rallies, and fairs. JB

2303 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Recreation
3635 Cultural Issues War Recuperation
5239 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Recuperation
5560 Cultural Issues Religion Redemption
4715 Cultural Issues Law Reformatory
772 Cultural Issues War Refuge
4911 Cultural Issues War Refugee
246 Cultural Issues (First level term) Region
2803 Cultural Issues Progress Regional
1534 Cultural Issues Law Regulation
5332 Cultural Issues Agriculture Regulations
3102 Cultural Issues Religion Relationship with God
247 Cultural Issues (First level term) Religion
319 Cultural Issues Slavery Religion
1675 Cultural Issues Progress Religion
5473 Cultural Issues Segregation Religious
3273 Cultural Issues Religion Religious art or iconography
3074 Cultural Issues Religion Religious faith
2533 Cultural Issues Progress Renaming

The renaming of a product or object due to modernization. This is different than Themes-> Naming -> Change over time which is related to people. JB

1706 Cultural Issues Progress Renovations
4989 Cultural Issues Economy Renting housing
322 Cultural Issues Gender Reproduction
2576 Cultural Issues Politics Republican

In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB

1794 Cultural Issues Politics Republicanism
1677 Cultural Issues Progress Requirements
312 Cultural Issues Slavery Resistance

To index passages in which slaves are described taking a stand of some kind, usually verbal, against their enslavement. The clearest instances of this involve Loosh and Granny on the Sartoris plantation. (More direct physical forms of resistance are indexed under "Fugitive" and "Revolt.") SR

562 Cultural Issues Class Respectability
3331 Cultural Issues Religion Resurrection

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