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Arma
The Arma are the descendants of Moroccan soldiers who crossed the Sahara in 1591, conquered the Songhai Empire, and ruled Timbuktu and the middle Niger for two centuries.
Armenian Americans
Armenian Americans, an estimated 460,000-person U.S. ancestry community (2022 ACS) centered in greater Los Angeles and California, descended largely from survivors of the 1915 Armenian genocide and counted via the census ancestry question.
Armenian diaspora (Հայկական սփյուռք)
Armenian diaspora (Հայկական սփյուռք, Haykakan spyurk): global population of ethnic Armenians outside Armenia, about 6 million people across Russia, the United States, France, and the Middle East, formed by ancient trade colonies and the 1915 genocide.
Armenian immigration to Argentina
Armenian immigration to Argentina is the settlement of Armenians mostly from the Ottoman Empire, with the main wave after the 1915 Armenian Genocide, concentrated in Buenos Aires.
Armenian repatriation to Soviet Armenia
Armenian repatriation to Soviet Armenia was a Soviet campaign, announced in 1945, that brought roughly 90,000 to 100,000 diaspora Armenians to the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic by 1949.
Armenians (հայեր)
Armenians (հայեր, hayer) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian Highlands of the South Caucasus who speak Armenian and chiefly follow the Armenian Apostolic Church, with a large worldwide diaspora dating from the 1915 genocide.
Aromanians
Aromanians (Armãni, Vlachs) are an Eastern Romance-speaking ethnic group of the southern Balkans, related to Romanians, dispersed across Greece, Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania, with an endangered language.
Arora (ਅਰੋੜਾ)
Arora (ਅਰੋੜਾ), also Aror or Arore, a Punjabi Hindu and Sikh mercantile caste named after Aror (Rohri, Sindh); historically in south-west Punjab and Bahawalpur, 775,734 in the 1931 census, closely tied to the Khatris.
Arthur de Gobineau
Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882), French diplomat and writer; author of Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines (1853-55); his racial theory of history, spread by Schemann and Chamberlain, fed Pan-Germanism and Nazi ideology.
Aryan Nations
Aryan Nations, also the Church of Jesus Christ Christian, was Richard Butler's Christian Identity and neo-Nazi white supremacist group at Hayden Lake, Idaho, from the mid-1970s; it lost its compound in a 2000 lawsuit and collapsed after his 2004 death.
Aryan race
Aryan race: obsolete pseudoscientific concept racializing "Aryan" (ārya, airya), originally a linguistic self-designation of Indo-Iranian peoples; developed by Gobineau and philology, codified in Nazi law, scientifically refuted.
Ashkenazi Jews (אשכנזים)
Ashkenazi Jews (אשכנזים, Ashkenazim) are the largest Jewish ethnic group, descended from medieval Rhineland communities; about 10 million people, roughly half European and half Middle Eastern ancestry, Yiddish-speaking heritage.
Ashleigh Banfield
Ashleigh Banfield is a Canadian-American broadcast journalist and anchor. She has worked for networks including MSNBC, CNN, and NewsNation, and launched the Drop Dead Serious podcast in 2025.
Asian
Asian: a racial and ethnic classification, notably the US OMB category for people with origins in Central, East, Southeast, or South Asia, and a contested pan-ethnic identity whose boundaries differ by country, era, and measurement practice.
Asian Americans
Asian Americans: U.S. residents with roots in East Asia, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent; 24.8 million people (7% of the U.S.) in 2023, term coined in 1968, fastest-growing major racial group.
Asian baby girl
Asian baby girl (ABG), originally Asian Baby Gangster, is slang for a young Asian American woman with a bold, heavily made-up aesthetic, originating in 1980s-1990s California youth culture and later spread and commodified via YouTube, Subtle Asian Traits, and TikTok.
Asian fetish
Asian fetish, or "yellow fever", is sexualized objectification and stereotyping of East and Southeast Asian people, especially women. Rooted in U.S. military presence and Lotus Blossom/Dragon Lady media tropes; linked to depressive symptoms and debated as preference versus racial fetish.
Asian people
Asian people: a broad classification for people with origins in Asia, defined in US census terms as the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent; covers East, South, and Southeast Asian groups whose boundaries and usefulness are contested.
Asjad Raza Khan
Asjad Raza Khan (Muhammad Munawwar Raza Muhamid, born 1970, Bareilly) is an Indian Barelvi scholar, son and successor of Akhtar Raza Khan, Chief Qadi of India at Markazi Dar al-Qada and chair of All India Jamaat Raza e Mustafa.
Asmat people
Asmat people, indigenous Papuan hunter-gatherers of Southwest Papua, Indonesia (Asmat-Kamoro languages); about 70,000 people in 220+ villages, known for woodcarving, bis poles, and former headhunting, contacted permanently from 1953.
Assamese people
Assamese people (Asomiya) are the Indo-Aryan-speaking community of Assam, India, shaped by Ahom rule from 1228, colonial Bengali language conflict, migration, classical language status (2024), and the NRC citizenship debate.
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was an American grassroots organization founded in 1970 in Little Rock, Arkansas, that advocated for low- and moderate-income families.
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) is an American nonprofit, founded in 1967, supporting writers and university creative writing programs through its large annual conference.
Assyrian people
Assyrians, also known as Assyrian Christians or Chaldo-Assyrians, are an Indigenous people of Mesopotamia, largely Christian and speaking Aramaic dialects, with homelands in Iraq, Syria, southeastern Turkey, and northwestern Iran.
Asylum in the United States
Asylum in the United States is protection for refugees already in or arriving at the country, under INA Section 208 since the 1980 Refugee Act; covers five persecution grounds, one-year filing deadline, affirmative and defensive processes, and 2025-2026 restrictions.
Asylum seeker
Asylum seeker: a person who has applied for international protection and whose refugee claim, under the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol, is not yet finally decided; 9 million were pending worldwide at end-2025.
Aussiedler and Spätaussiedler
Aussiedler and Spätaussiedler are legal terms for ethnic Germans who migrated to Germany after 1950. They received immediate citizenship and are defined by a special admission procedure.
Australian Aboriginal culture
Australian Aboriginal culture: the languages, Dreaming law, Country, kinship, songlines and art of Australia's Aboriginal peoples, occupying the continent for at least 65,000 years, comprising over 500 nations, distinct from Torres Strait Islander cultures, and maintained today through revitalisation and contemporary art.
Australian Aboriginal flag
The Australian Aboriginal Flag, designed by Luritja artist Harold Thomas and first flown in Adelaide in July 1971, has black, red and yellow symbolism, was proclaimed a Flag of Australia in 1995, and its copyright passed to the Commonwealth in 2022.
Australians
Australians, known as Aussies, are the citizens and residents of Australia, a multicultural society of 27.9 million people, 32 percent of whom were born overseas.