Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Term Description
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
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
826 Cultural Issues Race Chickasaw
1291 Cultural Issues Violence Child abuse
1288 Cultural Issues Age Childhood
2775 Cultural Issues Religion Chistian Scientist
662 Cultural Issues Gender Chivalry
5693 Cultural Issues Religion Christening
4515 Cultural Issues Religion Christianity
3529 Cultural Issues Ritual Christmas gift game
3542 Cultural Issues Ritual Christmas holiday traditions
3298 Cultural Issues Religion Church service
3662 Cultural Issues Entertainment Circus
1849 Cultural Issues Politics City government
4737 Cultural Issues Ritual Civic
2412 Cultural Issues Economy Civic boosterism
3033 Cultural Issues Entertainment Civic events
2514 Cultural Issues Government Civic officials
4981 Cultural Issues History Civil Rights legislation
5261 Cultural Issues Law Civil suit
292 Cultural Issues Slavery Civil War
2101 Cultural Issues War Civil War
3183 Cultural Issues History Civil War
1556 Cultural Issues History Civil War as point of reference
3490 Cultural Issues War Civil War consequences
3491 Cultural Issues History Civil War consequences
239 Cultural Issues (First level term) Class
4248 Cultural Issues Class Class conflict
644 Cultural Issues Class Class consciousness
2889 Cultural Issues Clothes Clean
958 Cultural Issues Progress Clearing the land
2362 Cultural Issues Clothes Cloak
466 Cultural Issues (First level term) Clothes
1513 Cultural Issues Race Clothes
1643 Cultural Issues Gender Clothing

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