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Housing for the Elderly
Housing for the Elderly: housing arrangements for older adults fostering independent living (group homes, small apartments, CCRCs), distinct from supervised homes for the aged; covers US policy history, costs, design, and aging in place.
How the Other Half Lives
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York is Jacob Riis's 1890 Scribner's book documenting New York tenement poverty with flash photography; it founded American social documentary photography and prompted tenement reform.
Hromada movement
The Hromada movement (громадівський рух) was a Ukrainian national movement operating in the Russian Empire during the 19th century. It promoted cultural and educational activities despite strong imperial repression.
Hubert Harrison
Hubert Harrison (1883–1927) was a St. Croix–born, Harlem-based writer, orator, and activist called "the father of Harlem radicalism" who led socialist and New Negro movements.
HuCow
HuCow, from human + cow, is a kink role and erotica genre in which a submissive plays a dairy cow for a dominant farmer, centered on lactation and milking; used since at least 2012, with 450+ FetLife groups.
Huda Sha'arawi (هدى شعراوي)
Huda Sha'arawi (هدى شعراوي, 1879–1947), born Nur al-Huda Sultan, Egyptian nationalist and feminist who founded the Egyptian Feminist Union in 1923, led the 1919 women's protest, and publicly unveiled at Cairo's train station in 1923.
Huey P. Newton
Huey P. Newton (Huey Percy Newton, 1942–1989) co-founded the Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale in Oakland in 1966, served as Minister of Defense, earned a UC Santa Cruz Ph.D., lived in Cuban exile, and was shot dead in Oakland in 1989.
Hug
A hug is a physical embrace expressing affection, comfort, greeting, celebration, or solidarity. Also called an embrace; studied for cortisol-reducing, oxytocin-mediated effects, greeting norms, and robotic hugging.
Human bonding
Human bonding is the formation of selective, enduring emotional connections, studied chiefly through Bowlby and Ainsworth's attachment theory, Harlow's primate work, oxytocin research, pair-bond evolution, cross-cultural variation, and health effects of secure versus disrupted bonds.
Human Diversity Foundation
Human Diversity Foundation (HDF), also Human Diversity Foundation LLC, is a private company founded by Emil Kirkegaard in 2022 that funds scientific racism research and media such as Aporia, funded by $1.3 million from Andrew Conru.
Human female sexuality
Human female sexuality covers women's sexual desire, response, orientation, pleasure, and reproduction. Key distinctions: concealed-estrus debate, circular response model, sociocultural orgasm gap, and the shift from linear Masters-Johnson models.
Human male sexuality
Human male sexuality covers male sexual desire, arousal, erection, ejaculation, and orgasm, testosterone's central hormonal role, Kinsey's 1948 report and the Kinsey Scale, Masters and Johnson's 1966 physiology research, and how masculinity norms shape male sexual behavior and health.
Human mating strategies
Human mating strategies: evolved short-term, long-term, extra-pair, poaching, and guarding tactics from sexual strategies theory, varying by sex, mate value, sex ratio, ecology, and culture.
Human Rights Campaign
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), founded as the Human Rights Campaign Fund in 1980 by Stephen Endean, is a leading US LGBTQ+ political advocacy organization, known for the Corporate Equality Index and Equality Voter mobilization.
Human sexual response cycle
Human sexual response cycle: model of physiological and emotional changes during sexual activity. Masters and Johnson's 1966 four-stage linear model (excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution), Kaplan's desire phase, and Basson's 2000 circular female model.
Human sexuality
Human sexuality: the study of sexual attraction, orientation (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual), identity, behavior, and sexual health; distinct from sex/gender measurement and shaped by biological, psychological, and cultural factors.
Humanitarian aid
Humanitarian aid is emergency assistance to people affected by conflict, disaster, or crisis, guided by humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence. It spans the ICRC (founded 1863), UN agencies coordinated by OCHA, and NGOs; 2025 appeals of about $47 billion were less than 17 percent funded by August.
Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism: organized relief of suffering based on need, defined by humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence. Founded with Dunant's Red Cross (1863) and Geneva Convention (1864), now a global sector with the ICRC, IFRC, and 191 National Societies.
Hungarian railway strike of 1912
The Hungarian railway strike of 1912 was a general strike called in Budapest on 23 May 1912, in which about 100,000 workers stopped work to demand universal suffrage and the resignation of Prime Minister István Tisza.
Hunger
Hunger is lack of regular access to enough food for an active, healthy life. Measured by FAO's Prevalence of Undernourishment and the Food Insecurity Experience Scale in the annual SOFI report; SOFI 2026 found hunger at 7.8 percent of the world population.
Hunger strike
Hunger strike: refusal of food as protest, famous among suffragettes (Marion Wallace Dunlop, 1909), Irish republicans (MacSwiney, 1981 Maze), and detainees; governed medically by the WMA Declaration of Malta.
Husband
Husband: a man joined to another person in marriage, a male spouse. From Old Norse husbondi, "master of a house"; also a verb meaning to conserve. Covers earnings, household labor, and legal changes.
Hydeia Broadbent
Hydeia Loren Broadbent (1984–2024), American HIV/AIDS activist born HIV-positive, nationally known from a 1992 Nickelodeon special with Magic Johnson, Oprah appearance, and 1996 Republican Convention speech; died February 20, 2024, in Las Vegas at 39.
Hypergamy
Hypergamy is marrying a person of higher caste, status, education, or income; hypogamy is marrying down. Educational hypergamy (wife less educated) has declined worldwide as women's college attainment reversed the gender gap, making hypogamy now more common in most European countries and rising in the United States.
I can't breathe
"I can't breathe" protest slogan from Eric Garner's 2014 last words and George Floyd's 2020 death; rallying cry of Black Lives Matter against police violence, later extended to COVID-19 and climate contexts.
I Have a Dream
"I Have a Dream," Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech of 28 August 1963 at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Lincoln Memorial; partly improvised refrain earlier used in Detroit; 2002 National Recording Registry.
Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi (born Ibram Henry Rogers, 1982), also Ibram Xolani Kendi, American historian of racism and antiracist scholar; National Book Award winner for Stamped from the Beginning, author of How to Be an Antiracist, founding director of BU's Center for Antiracist Research, now at Howard University.
Ice Bucket Challenge
The Ice Bucket Challenge is a viral charity dare, famous from summer 2014, in which participants dump ice water on themselves on video and nominate others within 24 hours, raising $115 million for ALS research including the NEK1 gene discovery.
ILGA-Europe
ILGA-Europe: Brussels-based LGBTI umbrella NGO of 700+ organisations in 54 countries, region of ILGA since 1996; publishes the annual Rainbow Map ranking 49 countries on LGBTI laws and policies.
Illegal immigration to India
Illegal immigration to India: foreign nationals entering without valid travel documents or overstaying visas. Governed by the Citizenship Act 1955 and Immigration and Foreigners Act 2025; enforcement concentrated in Assam, with about 1.9 million excluded from its NRC.