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Shaun King
Shaun King, American activist and writer, rose to prominence in the 2014 Ferguson protests, led The North Star, Real Justice PAC, and Grassroots Law Project, and faces recurring fundraising-accountability disputes.
Shawnee
The Shawnee are an Algonquian-speaking Eastern Woodlands people of the Ohio Valley, led historically by Tecumseh, removed to Kansas and Oklahoma, and today organized as three federally recognized tribes headquartered in Oklahoma.
Shebeen
Shebeen: township drinking establishment, from Irish sibín, historically illegal under apartheid, now partly licensed as taverns; an estimated 180,000–250,000 unlicensed South African outlets persist.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
Sheherazade Goldsmith, born Sheherazade Bentley, is a British jewellery designer and writer who co-founded Loquet London in 2013 with Laura Bailey, known for solid-gold charm lockets, after careers in modelling, organic food, and journalism.
Shehla Rashid
Shehla Rashid Shora, Indian academic and former JNU students' union vice president (2015), led 2016 sedition-case protests, joined Shah Faesal's J&K People's Movement, faced a 2019 sedition case later withdrawn, and now teaches sociology in Budgam.
Shelby Steele
Shelby Steele (born 1946, Chicago) is an American essayist, former San Jose State English professor, and Hoover Institution senior fellow; author of The Content of Our Character (1990 NBCC Award) and White Guilt, known for critiques of affirmative action and victimization politics.
Shere Hite
Shere Hite (Shirley Diana Gregory, 1942–2020), American-born German feminist sex researcher, author of The Hite Report on Female Sexuality (1976), which reported most women do not orgasm from penetrative intercourse and sold over 50 million copies.
Sherpa people
Sherpa people (Tibetan shar pa, 'eastern people'): a Tibetan-origin ethnic group of Nepal's Khumbu region near Everest, migrated from Kham about 400-600 years ago; Nyingmapa Buddhist, Tibeto-Burman language, famed high-altitude mountaineers, not a job title.
Shi Ping
Shi Ping (施平, born Shi Eryi, 1911-2024) was a Chinese Communist Party educator and supercentenarian, world's oldest verified living man (April-June 2024), former Party Secretary of Beijing Agricultural University and East China Normal University, grandfather of Shi Yigong.
Shidduch (שידוך)
Shidduch (שידוך; plural shidduchim) is a match between two single Jews for the purpose of marriage, arranged by a matchmaker called a shadchan and practiced mainly in Orthodox communities.
Shirley Phelps-Roper
Shirley Phelps-Roper, Westboro Baptist Church spokesperson, daughter of founder Fred Phelps, defendant in Snyder v. Phelps, mother of defectors Megan and Grace, banned from the UK.
Shona people
The Shona are a cluster of Bantu-speaking peoples of the Zimbabwe plateau (Karanga, Zezuru, Manyika, Ndau, Korekore), about 80.9% of Zimbabwe's 2022 population, with a standardized language, Great Zimbabwe heritage, and ancestor-centered religion.
Shooting of Jacob Blake
The shooting of Jacob Blake occurred August 23, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, when officer Rusten Sheskey fired seven rounds into Blake's back, leaving the 29-year-old partially paralyzed; state and federal reviews ended without charges.
Shoshana Strook
Shoshana Strook (Strock), daughter of Israeli National Missions Minister Orit Strook, publicly accused her parents and a brother of ritual child sexual abuse in 2025 and was found dead in northern Israel in March 2026.
Shoshone
Shoshone (Newe) are Native Americans of the Great Basin, Rocky Mountains, and northern Plains, divided into Western, Northern, and Eastern groups; their Central Numic Uto-Aztecan language has about 5,000 speakers and is endangered, with major reservations at Wind River and Fort Hall.
Shotgun wedding
Shotgun wedding: a hurried marriage prompted by the bride's pregnancy, historically coerced by the bride's father, from the American frontier. Once the US norm until the 1970s, it declined after abortion and contraception liberalization, driving most of the rise in out-of-wedlock births.
Shriners
Shriners, or Shriners International (Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine), a Masonic fraternity founded 1872 in New York, known for red fezzes and for founding Shriners Children's hospitals in 1922.
Shtetl (שטעטל)
Shtetl (שטעטל, shtetlekh): Yiddish for "little town"; small pre-WWII Eastern European market towns with large Yiddish-speaking Jewish populations, often Jewish-majority, destroyed in the Holocaust and central to Jewish memory and literature.
Shuar
The Shuar are a Chicham (Jivaroan)-speaking indigenous people of southeastern Ecuador and northern Peru, related to the Achuar, Aguaruna, and Huambisa, known for the Shuar Federation (1964), tsantsa shrunken heads, and conflicts over mining and oil on their territory.
Shudra
Shudra (शूद्र): fourth varna of the classical Hindu fourfold order, associated with labour and service. Covers Vedic origins, textual disabilities, regional variation where Shudras could be kings, and modern anti-caste politics.
Shulamith Firestone
Shulamith Firestone (1945–2012), Canadian-born radical feminist, founded Chicago Radical Women, New York Radical Women, Redstockings, and New York Radical Feminists, and wrote The Dialectic of Sex (1970) and Airless Spaces (1998).
Shunning
Shunning is deliberate, sustained social withdrawal used as discipline by communities such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Amish, and Exclusive Brethren; a formalized form of ostracism with documented pain, need threat, and long-term psychological harm.
Shyness
Shyness: wariness or self-consciousness in social situations, distinct from social anxiety disorder (a clinical diagnosis) and introversion (a preference for solitude). Covers symptoms, child shyness taxonomy, school effects, and cross-cultural differences.
Sibling
Sibling: a brother or sister sharing at least one parent, including full, half, step, and adoptive siblings. 82.22% of US youth lived with a sibling in 2010; warmth, low conflict, and equal treatment predict better mental health.
Sibling relationship
Sibling relationship: the emotional bond between brothers and sisters, often a person's longest close relationship. Covers what shapes its quality (attachment, parental differential treatment), links to child psychopathology, adult outcomes, twins, only children, and the life course.
Sibling-in-law
Sibling-in-law: a relative of one's generation connected by marriage, either a spouse's sibling or a sibling's spouse; gendered forms brother-in-law and sister-in-law; extended sense covers a spouse's sibling's spouse (co-sibling-in-law).
Sicilians
Sicilians: natives and inhabitants of Sicily, Italy's largest island region. Identity (sicilianità) shaped by Siculi, Greek, Arab, Norman layers; Sicilian language; large diaspora; special 1946 autonomy.
Siddi
Siddi (Habshi, Sheedi): Afro-descendant community of South Asia, mainly in Gujarat, Karnataka, and Hyderabad, descended from Bantu peoples brought by Arab and Portuguese traders; about 67% African ancestry, Scheduled Tribe status in Karnataka since 2003.
Siemens family
Siemens family, German industrial dynasty of Werner von Siemens (1816–1892), founder of Siemens & Halske (1847). Brothers Carl and William ran St. Petersburg and London subsidiaries; family controlled the firm into the postwar era and retains about 6% of Siemens AG.
Sierra Leonean refugee crisis
The Sierra Leonean refugee crisis was the mass displacement of Sierra Leone's population during the civil war of 1991 to 2002, which drove about 460,000 refugees into Guinea and Liberia.