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Anthropology
Anthropology is the social science that studies human beings across all times and places, taking a holistic, comparative approach to biology, language, social organization, and material culture, with ethnographic fieldwork as its central method.
Anti-abortion violence
Anti-abortion violence: murders, bombings, arsons, clinic invasions, and harassment targeting US abortion providers since the 1970s; 11 murders and 42 bombings since 1977, addressed by the 1994 FACE Act.
Anti-African sentiment
Anti-African sentiment, also called Afrophobia, is prejudice and discrimination against Africans, people of African descent, and African migrants, rooted in slavery and colonialism, documented by UN bodies, and addressed through reparations and anti-racism frameworks.
Anti-Americanism
Anti-Americanism is hostility toward the United States, its policies, culture, or people, measured mainly through surveys like Pew's Global Attitudes Project. Key figures: the 2003 Iraq War collapse in favorability and the sharp 2025 decline under Trump.
Anti-Apartheid Movement
The British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), 1959–1994, campaigned through boycotts, sanctions, sports embargoes, and prisoner campaigns to isolate apartheid South Africa; founded from the 1959 boycott committee, renamed after Sharpeville in 1960, its archive is at Oxford's Bodleian Library.
Anti-Black racism in the Arab world
Anti-Black racism in the Arab world: prejudice against Black people in Arabic-speaking MENA societies, rooted in precolonial slavery and ninth-century race-thinking, examined via Arab Barometer surveys, Kadhem's 2004 study, and the Arab-Islamic slavery terminology debate.
Anti-Chinese sentiment
Anti-Chinese sentiment, also called Sinophobia, is hostility toward Chinese people or China, spanning the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, COVID-19-era anti-Asian hate crimes, and spillover discrimination against Asian Americans.
Anti-Croat sentiment
Anti-Croat sentiment, also called Anti-Croatism, is prejudice against Croats. It is characterized by the collective labeling of Croats as "Ustasha" in Serbian media and politics.
Anti-Filipino sentiment
Anti-Filipino sentiment is prejudice and discrimination against Filipinos, historically in the United States through colonial-era labor recruitment, the 1929-1930 West Coast riots including Watsonville, immigration exclusion politics, and persistent discrimination reported by Filipino Americans today.
Anti-gay purges in Chechnya
Anti-gay purges in Chechnya: waves of detention, torture, and honor-killing incitement against men presumed gay, begun February 2017 under Ramzan Kadyrov, denied by officials, and continuing through 2024-2026 with wartime blackmail.
Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe
Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe, also called anti-genderism or opposition to 'gender ideology', are mobilizations against LGBT rights, reproductive rights, and gender education, originating in 1990s Vatican reactions to UN conferences and now tied to right-wing populist parties and transnational funding networks.
Anti-gender movement
Anti-gender movement: transnational campaigns against gender equality, feminism, and LGBTQ rights framed as opposing 'gender ideology'; originated in Vatican circles after the 1994 Cairo and 1995 Beijing UN conferences, now funded by conservative religious, Russian, and American donors.
Anti-German sentiment
Anti-German sentiment: hostility toward Germans, people of German descent, or the German state, also called Germanophobia. Peaked in WWI and WWII with internment, language bans, and expulsions; documented today in Austria and EU-policy debates.
Anti-globalization movement
Anti-globalization movement: also called alter-globalization or global justice movement, a transnational protest wave of the mid-1990s to early 2000s opposing neoliberal globalization, marked by the 1999 Seattle WTO protests and the World Social Forum.
Anti-Henan sentiment
Anti-Henan sentiment (河南人歧视) is regional discrimination against people from Henan Province, China, marked by the 'dishonest Henan' stereotype, media amplification, hukou-linked structural roots, and the first Chinese regional discrimination lawsuit.
Anti-Indian sentiment
Anti-Indian sentiment is prejudice and discrimination against Indians and South Asians, from colonial Natal's "coolie curse" legislation and US Asian exclusion to the 2020s surge in online anti-Indian hate.
Anti-intellectualism in the United States
Anti-intellectualism in the United States is a widespread attitude of distrust toward experts. Nearly one third of Americans have held these views, often correlating with political movements.
Anti-Irish sentiment
Anti-Irish sentiment: hostility toward Irish people in Britain and America, spanning Victorian stereotypes, Know-Nothings, the contested 'No Irish Need Apply' signs, racialization, and twentieth-century persistence.
Anti-Italianism
Anti-Italianism is prejudice against Italians and people of Italian ancestry, especially in the United States. Also called the Italian-American experience of discrimination, it involved racialist 'Mediterranean inferiority' theories, the 1911 Dillingham Commission's north/south race division, anarchist and Mafia stereotypes, WWII loyalty suspicions, and persistent mobster media images.
Anti-Japanese sentiment
Anti-Japanese sentiment: hostility toward Japan or Japanese people, also called anti-Japanism. Appears in East Asia (colonial memory, Chinese patriotic education, Korean comfort women issue) and in U.S. exclusion and internment history.
Anti-miscegenation laws
Anti-miscegenation laws were US state statutes banning interracial marriage, from colonial Virginia's 1662 act and Maryland's 1664 law until Loving v. Virginia struck down the remaining bans on June 12, 1967; the Respect for Marriage Act of 2022 added federal recognition.
Anti-Polish sentiment
Anti-Polish sentiment: hostility toward Poles as a national group, also called Polonophobia. Covers Prussian Germanization, Nazi propaganda from 1939, Polish American stereotyping, and racialisation of Polish migrants in Brexit-era Britain.
Anti-racism
Anti-racism: beliefs, actions, movements, and policies opposing racism to build an egalitarian society. Also called antiracism; spans abolitionism, civil rights, anti-apartheid, and Black Lives Matter, with liberal versus structural theoretical strands.
Anti-Russian sentiment
Anti-Russian sentiment, or Russophobia, is prejudice or hostility toward Russia and Russians, documented in Europe since the 15th century; the term is also used by the Kremlin to dismiss criticism.
Anti-Saloon League
The Anti-Saloon League, founded 1893 in Oberlin, Ohio by Howard Hyde Russell and nationally organized in 1895, was a non-partisan single-issue temperance lobby led by Wayne Wheeler that pioneered pressure politics and drove the Eighteenth Amendment.
Anti-Slavic sentiment
Anti-Slavic sentiment, or antislavism, is prejudice and discrimination against Slavic and Eastern European peoples, from Nazi racial policy to contemporary German discrimination and wartime anti-Ukrainian rhetoric.
Anti-social behaviour
Anti-social behaviour (ASB): UK legal category for criminal and non-criminal conduct causing nuisance or harm, governed by the 2014 Act and Crime and Policing Act 2026 respect orders; about 1.0 million police-recorded incidents in England and Wales in 2025.
Anti-suffragism
Anti-suffragism: organized opposition to women's voting rights, also called the Antis or remonstrants; US groups included MAOFESW and NAOWS (1911, Josephine Dodge), Britain's 1908 Anti-Suffrage League of Mary Ward; defeated by the 1920 Nineteenth Amendment.
Anti-Tech Revolution (revolutionary movement)
Anti-Tech Revolution (ATR) is an international, aboveground, legal, nonviolent revolutionary movement founded on Theodore Kaczynski's 2016 book Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How. It seeks to dismantle the technological system through a three-stage strategy of organization building, resistance culture, and legal mass-action dismantling, distinguishing itself from anarcho-primitivism and online-only neo-Luddite currents.
Anti-transgender movement in the United Kingdom
Anti-transgender movement in the UK, also called the gender-critical movement: campaigns opposing trans rights, driven by GRA reform debate, groups like For Women Scotland and Sex Matters, culminating in the April 2025 Supreme Court FWS ruling defining sex as biological in the Equality Act 2010.