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Hate speech
Hate speech: communication attacking people based on identity factors like race, religion, or gender. No universal legal definition; UN 2019 strategy, Rabat Plan threshold, EU criminalization, US First Amendment protection, platform moderation.
Hatred
Hatred (hate): a hostile emotion and lasting attitude combining detestation, anger, and often a desire to harm, distinct from dislike, anger, contempt, and disgust by higher arousal, personal threat, attack tendencies, and moralized content.
Haunani-Kay Trask
Haunani-Kay Trask (1949-2021), Native Hawaiian scholar, poet, and sovereignty activist; founding director of the UH Manoa Center for Hawaiian Studies, founder of Ka Lahui Hawaii, author of From a Native Daughter.
Hausa people
Hausa people, West African people of Northern Nigeria and Niger speaking Hausa, an Afro-Asiatic Chadic language with tens of millions of speakers. Known for Ajami and Boko scripts, the Sokoto Caliphate, and trading diaspora communities in Yoruba towns.
Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis (1859–1939), English physician and pioneer sexologist, author of Studies in the Psychology of Sex and Sexual Inversion; also eugenicist, editor, and friend of Margaret Sanger.
Hawaiʻiloa
Hawaiʻiloa names both a legendary Hawaiian navigator said to have discovered the islands and a 57-foot double-hulled voyaging canoe built 1991–1993 from Alaskan Sitka spruce by the Polynesian Voyaging Society.
Hawaiian Renaissance
The Hawaiian Renaissance was a cultural and political movement of the 1960s and 1970s in which Native Hawaiians renewed interest in their language, dance, and voyaging traditions.
Hawthorne effect
Hawthorne effect: change in research participants' behavior from awareness of being studied, named after 1924–1933 Western Electric Hawthorne plant studies; evidence is heterogeneous, effects usually small and short-lived.
Hayato people
The Hayato (隼人) were the ancient people of southern Kyushu, Japan, long resisted by the Yamato court before their final defeat in the war of 720 to 721.
Hazaras (هزاره)
Hazaras (هزاره) are a Dari-speaking, mostly Shia ethnic group of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran, about 10–15% of Afghans, historically persecuted under Abdur Rahman Khan, the Taliban, and ISKP attacks.
Hazard
Hazard: a condition, substance, or activity with the potential to cause harm, distinct from risk, which adds probability and exposure. Covers workplace hazard identification, behavior-based safety, and hazard perception in driving.
Hazel Massery
Hazel Bryan Massery (born 1942) is the white student shown shouting at Elizabeth Eckford in Will Counts's iconic September 4, 1957 photograph of the Little Rock Nine; she later apologized, reconciled briefly with Eckford, and is the subject of Margolick's Elizabeth and Hazel.
Health psychology
Health psychology is the field of psychology that examines how biological, psychological, and social factors shape health and illness, and applies this to promoting health and improving care.
Hearst family
The Hearst family: George Hearst's mining fortune, William Randolph Hearst's nationwide yellow-journalism newspaper empire and political bids, and the family trust that still controls Hearst today.
Heather Altman
Heather Altman, née Bilyeu, is an American luxury real estate agent and reality TV personality, a cast member of Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles from 2008.
Heather Mills
Heather Mills (born 1968) is an English campaigner, former model, and vegan business owner (VBites), distinct from Heather McCartney, Paul McCartney's adopted daughter. Known for her 1993 leg amputation, landmine charity work, 2002-2008 marriage to McCartney, and 166.84 km/h speed skiing record.
HeForShe
HeForShe is UN Women's solidarity movement for gender equality, launched 20 September 2014 by Ban Ki-moon and Emma Watson, engaging men and boys through pledges, the IMPACT 10x10x10 program, and the HeForShe Alliance.
Hegemonic masculinity
Hegemonic masculinity, coined by Carrigan, Connell and Lee in 1985 and reformulated by Connell and Messerschmidt in 2005, is the culturally idealized masculinity legitimizing men's dominance over women and some men over others, part of a hierarchy including complicit, subordinated, and marginalized masculinities.
Hehe people
The Hehe, also called Wahehe, are a Bantu-speaking people of Tanzania's Southern Highlands, known for resisting German colonial rule under Chief Mkwawa from 1891 to 1898.
Height discrimination
Height discrimination (heightism) is prejudice or unequal treatment based on stature, affecting wages, employment, healthcare, and dating. Key facts: Feldman coined the term in the 1970s; measured wage premiums of about 6% per 10 cm in China; partial legal protection in New York City since 2023.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller (1880–1968), American deafblind author and activist; first deafblind person to earn a BA (Radcliffe, 1904); Socialist Party member from 1909, IWW supporter, ACLU co-founder in 1920; wrote The Story of My Life with teacher Anne Sullivan.
Helicopter parent
Helicopter parent: an overinvolved, hyperprotective caregiver, also called overparenting. Term coined 1990 (Cline and Fay); marked by high warmth, high control, low autonomy granting; linked to anxiety, depression, and poor adjustment, with effects varying by culture.
Hélio Pellegrino
Hélio Pellegrino (1924–1988) was a Brazilian psychoanalyst, poet, essayist, and journalist, born in Belo Horizonte, who opposed the military dictatorship and co-founded Brazil's first Social Clinic of Psychoanalysis.
Helmut Kentler
Helmut Kentler (1928–2008), German psychologist, sexologist, and professor of social pedagogy at Hannover, placed Berlin foster children with convicted pedophiles from 1969, a practice officially investigated after his death as state-enabled child abuse.
Hemlata Rajye
Hemlata Rajye is the Maharani of Jodhpur and a princess of Poonch by birth; her children are Shivranjani Rajye and Shivraj Singh, born 1974 and 1975.
Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher of duration, intuition, memory, and creative evolution; author of Matter and Memory and Creative Evolution; Nobel Prize in Literature 1927; revived by Deleuze's 1966 Bergsonism.
Henry Dunant
Henry Dunant (Jean-Henri Dunant, 1828-1910), Swiss businessman and founder of the ICRC; witnessed Solferino 1859, wrote A Memory of Solferino (1862), initiated the first Geneva Convention (1864), won the first Nobel Peace Prize (1901).
Henry Murray
Henry Alexander Murray (1893–1988), American psychologist and director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic, founder of personology, co-inventor of the Thematic Apperception Test, author of Explorations in Personality (1938), OSS assessor and Hitler-profile author, and supervisor of the Harvard stress study that included Ted Kaczynski.
Henry Street Settlement
Henry Street Settlement is a New York City nonprofit founded in 1893 by nurse Lillian Wald on the Lower East Side, headquartered at 265 Henry Street, known for public health nursing, the 1972 Urban Family Center shelter model, and the Abrons Arts Center.
Hephthalites
The Hephthalites, or White Huns (Byzantine Ephthalitai, Arabic Hayṭāl), were a Central Asian confederation that ruled Transoxiana, Khorasan, and northern India from roughly 460 to 570, defeated Sasanian king Peroz in 484, and fell around 560 to a Sasanian-Turk alliance.