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Term IDsort descending Vocabulary Parent Term Description
4540 Environment Olfactory Smoke
4541 Cultural Issues Food Banana
4542 Cultural Issues Food Ham
4543 Cultural Issues Law Lawsuit
4544 Themes and Motifs Character Humility
4545 Themes and Motifs Character Stupid
4546 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Samson
4547 Themes and Motifs Inheritance Property
4548 Actions Verbal Rhetorical question
4549 Cultural Issues Law Contract
4550 Relationships Familial Mother-in-law
4551 Cultural Issues Law Lawyers
4552 Relationships Marital Strife
4553 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Polio
4554 Cultural Issues Religion Judaism
4555 Cultural Issues Religion Presbyterian
4556 Cultural Issues Religion Atheism
4557 Cultural Issues Entertainment Playing cards
4558 Environment Place Well|Wellhouse
4559 Themes and Motifs Objects Silverware
4560 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Virginia
4561 Cultural Issues War Glorification
4562 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Cannon
4563 Themes and Motifs Objects Cannon
4564 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Carolina
4565 Aesthetics Language Shhhh
4566 Cultural Issues Race Stereotype lower intelligence
4567 Themes and Motifs Objects Soap
4568 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Coolidge, Calvin
4569 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Smith, Al
4570 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Barnes, Djuna
4571 Actions Legal Will
4572 Themes and Motifs Texts Will
4573 Themes and Motifs Psychological Denial
4574 Cultural Issues Land-Use Collective exploitation

This is in reference to the system of governance Uncle Buck and Buddy setup on the McCaslin plantation with black and white working side side-by-side in large cooperative referenced in the Unvanquished (48-49). A similar system is enacted by Brother Goodhay in the Mansion. JB

4575 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Battle of Second Manassas
4576 Actions Interaction, Social Spectate

Whenever a group of people are watching an event unfold. For example, when the soldiers watch Buck and Buddy play cards in the Unvanquished (50). JB

4577 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Cockrum
4578 Cultural Issues Crime Horse theft
4579 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Spanish-American War
4580 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Italy
4581 Cultural Issues Economy Insurance
4582 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Lao Tse (Laozi)
4583 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Hawkhurst
4584 Cultural Issues Race Stereotype Superstitious
4585 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Atlanta, Georgia
4586 Actions Work Missing work
4587 Actions Communication Engrave
4588 Actions Legal Standing guard
4589 Cultural Issues Race Subverting a stereotype
4590 Cultural Issues Race Inverting a stereotype
4591 Actions Mental Deduction
4592 Actions Communication Speaking
4593 Cultural Issues Crime Car theft
4594 Cultural Issues Crime Grave robbing
4595 Cultural Issues Crime Innocence
4596 Cultural Issues Religion Communion
4597 Cultural Issues Alcohol Abstinence
4598 Actions Legal Exhumation order
4599 Actions Economic Buying timber
4600 Actions Bodily Sleepy
4601 Themes and Motifs Texts Treaty
4602 Cultural Issues Law Territory
4603 Actions Verbal Social criticism
4604 Themes and Motifs Character Popularity
4605 Actions Work Dismissing from work
4606 Themes and Motifs Character Persistence
4607 Actions Physical Fasting
4608 Actions Bodily Fasting
4609 Actions Interaction, Social Competition
4610 Actions Physical Rescuing
4611 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Solomon
4612 Aesthetics Narrative Cyclical
4613 Environment Place Decayed plantation
4614 Actions Emotional Disgust
4615 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Home Sweet Home
4616 Environment Public Lavatory
4617 Actions Verbal Flirting
4618 Actions Verbal Praying
4619 Themes and Motifs Psychological Rationalizing
4620 Relationships Familial Dysfunctional
4621 Actions Work Waitress
4622 Cultural Issues Gender Male rivalry
4623 Environment Place Bedroom
4624 Cultural Issues Violence Sexual
4625 Actions Bodily Defecation
4626 Themes and Motifs Objects Military equipment
4627 Aesthetics Language Baby talk
4628 Actions Bodily Alimentary
4629 Actions Bodily Urinating
4630 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Pain
4631 Actions Communication Joking
4632 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Sacrificial Animal
4633 Aesthetics Language eeeeeeeeeeeeeee
4634 Cultural Issues Crime Rape
4635 Cultural Issues Gender Double standard
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.

4637 Cultural Issues Entertainment Music
4638 Relationships Familial Providing for
4639 Cultural Issues Technology Public telephone

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