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June 1976 protests
The June 1976 protests (Polish: Czerwiec 1976) were a wave of strikes by Polish workers against drastic food price increases announced by Edward Gierek's government in June 1976.
Jungian archetypes
Jungian archetypes are inherited, universal unconscious patterns in Carl Jung's collective unconscious, first named in 1919; contested since the 1990s between Stevens's biological essentialism and the emergence model of Hogenson, Knox, and Merchant.
Jungian cognitive functions
Jungian cognitive functions are the four functions of Jung's 1921 Psychological Types, thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition, each introverted or extraverted, yielding eight types and underlying MBTI, Beebe, and socionics models.
Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax
The Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax: the 2019 staged racist, homophobic attack the Empire actor reported in Chicago, leading to dropped charges, a special prosecutor, a 2021 conviction, and a 2024 Illinois Supreme Court reversal.
Just asking questions
Just asking questions (JAQ, "JAQing off") is a rhetorical tactic of implying claims or conspiracy theories through questions to gain plausible deniability; studied by Byford, Roberts, and in 2025 AI chatbot audits.
Just Say No
Just Say No: 1980s U.S. anti-drug campaign popularized by First Lady Nancy Reagan, telling children to refuse drugs by saying no. Related to D.A.R.E. Evaluations found negligible effects on youth drug use.
Jyotirao Phule (जोतिराव फुले)
Jyotirao Phule (जोतिराव फुले), Mahatma Phule, 1827–1890, Maharashtrian anti-caste reformer from the Mali community; opened Pune girls' schools from 1848 with Savitribai, wrote Gulamgiri (1873), founded Satyashodhak Samaj 1873.
K-1 visa
K-1 visa, the U.S. fiancé(e) nonimmigrant visa created in 1970, lets a foreign fiancé(e) of a U.S. citizen enter to marry within 90 days and then adjust status; distinct from K-2, K-3, and CR-1/IR-1 routes.
Kabyle immigration to France
Kabyle immigration to France is the century-long movement of workers from Kabylia, a Berber-speaking region of northern Algeria, to France, beginning in the late 1800s.
Kabyle people
Kabyle people (Iqbayliyen), Amazigh (Berber) ethnic group of Kabylia in northeastern Algeria, speaking the Kabyle variety of Tamazight; largest Algerian Berber group, marked by 1857 French conquest, 1980 Berber Spring, and 2001 Black Spring.
Kaffir (racial term)
Kaffir is South Africa's most severe anti-black racial slur, derived from Arabic kāfir (infidel), adopted by Dutch settlers in the 17th century, now hate speech under PEPUDA and crimen injuria, euphemized as the K-word.
Kai Trump
Kai Trump (born 2007), daughter of Donald Trump Jr., is an American amateur golfer and influencer, eldest Trump grandchild, Miami Hurricanes signee, LPGA debut at The Annika 2025, last of 108.
Kaifeng Jews
Kaifeng Jews: a Judeo-Persian Jewish community in Kaifeng, Henan, capital of the Northern Song; synagogue built 1163, Ming surnames, assimilated after 19th-century floods, under 1,000 descendants remain today.
Kailash Satyarthi (कैलाश सत्यार्थी)
Kailash Satyarthi (कैलाश सत्यार्थी), born 1954 in Vidisha, India, is a children's rights activist who shared the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Malala Yousafzai for the fight against child labor, founding Bachpan Bachao Andolan in 1980.
Kakanda people
The Kakanda are an ethnic group of west-central Nigeria living along the River Niger near its confluence with the Benue, generally classified as a subgroup of the Nupe peoples.
Kakar (کاکړ)
Kakar (کاکړ) is a Gharghashti Pashtun tribe of the Suliman mountains between Quetta and the Gomal river, based in Balochistan, Pakistan, and Loy Kandahar, Afghanistan, divided into many sub-tribes and tracing descent from Qais Abdul Rashid.
Kalapuya
Kalapuya: Indigenous people of Oregon's Willamette Valley, speakers of three Kalapuyan languages, signatories of the 1855 Willamette Valley Treaty, removed to Grand Ronde, now part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde.
Kalash people
The Kalash are a small pre-Islamic polytheistic ethnic and religious minority of about 4,000 people in the Bumburet, Rumbur, and Birir valleys of Chitral, Pakistan, speaking the Dardic Kalasha language and known for four seasonal festivals, purity rules, and conversion pressures.
Kalenjin people
The Kalenjin are Southern Nilotic-speaking peoples of Kenya's Rift Valley, comprising groups such as the Kipsigis and Nandi, and known for producing world-class distance runners.
Kalinago
The Kalinago, historically the Caribs, are the Indigenous people of the Lesser Antilles, surviving chiefly in Dominica's 15 km2 Kalinago Territory, about 3,000 people under the Carib Reserve Act of 1978 with a Chief and Council elected every five years and communally owned land.
Kālīnātha Rāya
Kālīnātha Rāya, recorded as Kalinath Munshi (कालीनाथ मुंशी), was a 19th-century collaborator of Rammohan Roy who helped decide that Roy's religious association should take permanent form.
Kallar (caste)
Kallar (கள்ளர்), a Tamil caste of southern Tamil Nadu, part of the Mukkulathor/Thevar formation with Maravar and Agamudaiyar; traditionally kaval policemen, criminalized under British rule, now an OBC community.
Kallawaya
The Kallawaya are a Bolivian ethnic group of itinerant herbalist healers based in Bautista Saavedra province north of La Paz, whose ancestral medical practice UNESCO recognized in 2003.
Kalman Ber
Kalman Ber (קלמן בר, Kalman Meir Ber), born 1957 in Tel Aviv, is the ninth Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, elected in 2024 after an unprecedented 40-40 deadlock, succeeding David Lau; formerly chief rabbi of Netanya.
Kalmyks
Kalmyks (Khal'mg) are the only Mongolic-speaking people in Europe, a Tibetan Buddhist people descended from Oirat nomads who settled the lower Volga in the 1620s, deported by Stalin in 1943 and returned in 1957 to Kalmykia, Russia.
Kama Steliga
Kama Steliga is a Canadian community-services administrator listed as executive director of the WorkBC Centre Lillooet in Lillooet, British Columbia, an employment center founded around 2020.
Kama Sutra (कामसूत्र)
The Kama Sutra (कामसूत्र) is a Sanskrit treatise on erotic love and the art of living, covering topics from sexual positions to marriage and life as a courtesan.
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (ಕಮಲಾದೇವಿ ಚಟ್ಟೋಪಾಧ್ಯಾಯ)
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (ಕಮಲಾದೇವಿ ಚಟ್ಟೋಪಾಧ್ಯಾಯ, 1903–1988), Indian freedom fighter, feminist, and Congress Socialist Party founder; first woman to contest a legislative seat in India (1926) and post-independence leader of the handicrafts revival.
Kamma (కమ్మ) (caste)
Kammas (కమ్మ), also Chowdary, are a Telugu dominant agrarian caste of coastal Andhra Pradesh, landowning and politically powerful via the TDP, rivals of the Reddys, and heavily represented in US migration. Distinct from Kammara blacksmith communities.
Kamo clan
The Kamo clan (賀茂氏) was an ancient Japanese clan centered on the Kamigamo and Shimogamo shrines of northern Kyoto, whose priestly line rose to prominence in the Heian period.