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Africatown
Africatown (African Town) is a Mobile, Alabama neighborhood founded in 1866 by survivors of the Clotilda, the last US slave ship (1860, 110 captives); National Register district since 2012, Heritage House museum opened 2023.
Afridi
Afridi (Aprīdī), a major Pashtun tribe of the Karlāni lineage centered on the Khyber Pass and Tirah in northwest Pakistan, organized into eight clans, historically resisting Mughal and British control; the name also belongs to figures such as Sohail Afridi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister.
Afrikaners
Afrikaners: white South African ethnic group descended mainly from Dutch, German, and French settlers at the Cape from 1652; Afrikaans-speaking; Great Trek, Boer republics, apartheid-era National Party rule; about 2.7 million people.
Afro-Argentines
Afro-Argentines (afroargentinos): people in Argentina identifying as Afro-descendant or with African ancestors; 302,936 people, 0.7% of the 2022 census, concentrated in Buenos Aires, with candombe as the emblematic cultural tradition.
Afro-Asians
Afro-Asians are people of mixed African and Asian heritage and communities of African descent in Asia, formed by over a millennium of Indian Ocean migration and slavery, and by 20th-century Afro-Asian solidarity such as the 1955 Bandung Conference.
Afro-Brazilians
Afro-Brazilians (afro-brasileiros), Brazilians of African descent including the census categories pardo and preto, number about 51% of the population per World Bank estimates, the largest Afro-descendant population outside Africa, marked by slavery's legacy, income and police-violence disparities, race quotas, capoeira, and Candomblé.
Afro-Germans
Afro-Germans (Afrodeutsche, Black Germans) are Germans of African descent, from colonial-era migrants through Nazi persecution and postwar occupation children to today's roughly 1.3 million-strong community with ISD advocacy and Afrozensus data.
Afro-Jamaicans
Afro-Jamaicans, also called Black Jamaicans, are Jamaicans of African descent who formed 92.09 percent of the population in the 2011 census and underpin Jamaican culture.
Afro-Mexicans
Afro-Mexicans: Mexicans of African descent, 2,576,213 self-identified in the 2020 census (2.04%), concentrated in Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Veracruz; constitutionally recognized in 2019 and as public-law subjects in 2024.
Afro-Russians
Afro-Russians, also called Black Russians, are Russian citizens of African ancestry, mostly children of African students who studied in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Afro–Latin Americans
Afro–Latin Americans (Afro-Latinos) are Latin Americans of mainly African ancestry, descended largely from enslaved Africans; over 130 million Afro-descendants live in the region, with Brazil the largest population, facing mestizaje-based exclusion and census undercounting.
Aftercare (BDSM)
Aftercare (BDSM), also called post-scene care, is the negotiated physical and emotional support after a BDSM scene: hydration, warmth, reassurance, check-ins, and sub drop management, standardized in late-1970s leather communities.
Afternoon
Afternoon is the day part between noon and sunset. Key features: the circadian post-lunch dip (1-4 pm alertness decline, not caused by lunch), short naps and light as countermeasures, and cultural practices such as afternoon tea and the siesta.
Afzaa Fadini Abdul Aziz
Datin Paduka Seri Afzaa Fadini binti Dato' Abdul Aziz, consort of Tengku Amir Shah, Raja Muda of Selangor; married 2 October 2025, holds S.P.M.S., arborist and TRCRC project manager.
Agapia Stephanopoulos
Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos, born Anastasia Stephanopoulos, is an American ROCOR nun, sister of George Stephanopoulos, who served at the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem and now leads the Convent of Saint Nicholas of Myra in Owego, New York, advocating for Palestinian Christians.
Age disparity in sexual relationships
Age disparity in sexual relationships: the age gap between sexual or romantic partners. Also called age heterogamy or age-disparate partnerships; typically men are older, gaps average 2–3 years in high-income countries and shrink with development.
Ageism
Ageism is stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination based on age, a term coined by Robert Butler in 1969. It affects all ages, harms older people's health, and is combated through laws, education, and intergenerational programs.
Agency (philosophy)
Agency (philosophy): the exercise of a being's capacity to act, central to philosophy of action and free will. Covers the standard causal theory of action, event-causal, agent-causal, and volitionist frameworks, compatibilism versus libertarianism, and empirical challenges.
Agency (sociology)
Agency (sociology): the capacity of individuals to act independently and pursue goals despite social structure. Central to the structure-agency debate via Giddens's structuration, Bourdieu's habitus, Archer's morphogenesis, and Sewell's 1992 theory; distinct from principal-agent agency theory.
Agender
Agender: a gender identity meaning "without gender", little or no connection to gender systems. Related to genderless, gender neutral, neutrois; placed under nonbinary and trans umbrellas; 15% of nonbinary youth in a 2021 US survey.
Ageplay
Ageplay (age play) is adult role play, usually within BDSM, in which participants assume ages other than their own; distinct from clinical age regression, adult-only, DSM-5 non-disorder, banned sexually in Second Life.
Aggression
Aggression: behavior intended to harm another person who does not wish to be harmed. Covers violence as its extreme subset, emotional versus instrumental types, and instinct, frustration-aggression, social learning, and general aggression model theories.
Aging in place
Aging in place is the ability to live in one's own home and community safely and independently regardless of age, income, or ability, a definition attributed to the CDC.
Aging of China
Aging of China: the rise in the older share of China's population. In 2025, 22.86% were 60+, 15.87% 65+; population fell a fourth straight year; retirement ages raised 2024; silver economy and pension reform responses.
Aging of Japan
Aging of Japan: the demographic shift to a society where 28.6% of people are 65+, birth numbers hit record lows (720,998 in 2024), and projections show the population falling toward 96 million by 2060.
Agrawal (अग्रवाल)
Agrawal (अग्रवाल), also Aggarwal, a North Indian Bania (Vaishya) mercantile caste with exogamous gotras, caste endogamy, surnames like Gupta and Mittal, and documented genetic homogeneity.
Agreeableness
Agreeableness, a Big Five personality trait, describes cooperation, compassion, trust, and modesty. Covers its facets, lexical origins, HEXACO distinctions, and meta-analytic links to health, work, and relationships.
Ahanta
The Ahanta are an Akan-speaking people of Ghana's western coast, historically organized as a kingdom whose paramount stool sits at Busua in the Western Region.
Ahir
Ahir (from Sanskrit Abhira) is a north Indian pastoral caste of cattle-herders and milk sellers, largely consolidated under the name Yadav; classified OBC, dominant in Haryana's Ahirwal, largest OBC group in Bihar.
Ahmed Mansoor
Ahmed Mansoor (born 1969) is an Emirati engineer, poet, and human rights activist, 2015 Martin Ennals Award laureate and the "million-dollar dissident" targeted by NSO Pegasus spyware; imprisoned in the UAE since 2017.