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Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu
Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu (இந்தி எதிர்ப்புப் போராட்டம்): mass protests in Madras Presidency and Tamil Nadu against compulsory Hindi teaching and Hindi as sole official language, in 1937-40, 1948-50, 1965, and 1967-68, led by Periyar and the DMK and ending in the state's two-language policy.
Anti-imperialism
Anti-imperialism, or opposition to imperialism, is opposition to empire and imperial domination. The term spread in the late nineteenth century across Europe and colonized regions.
Anti-incumbency
Anti-incumbency is voter sentiment favoring removal of incumbent politicians or governing parties, driven by retrospective economic voting, especially inflation. Contrasts with the incumbency advantage; documented in India as incumbency disadvantage and in the 2024 global election wave.
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
Anti-intellectualism is distrust of intellectuals and experts, framed against a privileged elite. Hofstadter's 1963 Pulitzer-winning book is the classic study; surveys link it to rejection of scientific consensus and populism.
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-Maidan
Anti-Maidan (Антимайдан) is a pro-Kremlin Russian social movement founded 15 January 2015 by Sablin, Starikov, Zaldostanov, and Berezikova to prevent a 'color revolution' and counter the opposition; analysts describe it as Kremlin-supervised and unregistered.
Anti-Masonic Party
Anti-Masonic Party (1826–1843), America's first influential third party, founded after William Morgan's 1826 disappearance in Batavia, New York; introduced the national nominating convention, ran William Wirt in 1832, won Vermont, then merged into the Whigs.
Anti-merchant edicts of Gaozu
The anti-merchant edicts of Gaozu (抑商诏令) were decrees issued by Emperor Gaozu of Han after founding the dynasty, barring merchants from silk, carriages, and office and taxing them heavily.
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-miscegenation laws in the United States
Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States were state statutes banning interracial marriage, in force from the colonial era until Loving v. Virginia struck them down in 1967.
Anti-Oedipus
Anti-Oedipus (L'Anti-Œdipe), 1972 book by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, first volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia; rejects the Oedipus complex, proposes schizoanalysis, links desire to capitalism; English translation 1977.
Anti-Party Group
Anti-Party Group: Soviet Presidium coalition of Malenkov, Molotov, and Kaganovich that tried to oust Khrushchev in June 1957; also the 1959 Chinese label for the Peng Dehuai faction condemned at Lushan.
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-rape device
Anti-rape devices are products designed to prevent, deter, or document rape, spanning internal barbed devices like Rape-aXe, safety wearables and alarms, phone apps, and consent-recording tools, with mixed evidence of effectiveness and criticism for shifting responsibility onto women.
Anti-realism
Anti-realism: a family of philosophical positions opposing realism along metaphysical, semantic, or epistemological dimensions, including empiricism, instrumentalism, Dummett's meaning-theoretic anti-realism, and moral error theory.
Anti-Recidivism Coalition
Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC), California 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded 2013 by producer Scott Budnick; reentry services, Hope and Redemption Team, and policy advocacy for formerly incarcerated people.
Anti-Rent War
Anti-Rent War (1839–1846), also called the Helderberg War: a Hudson Valley tenant farmers' revolt against New York's Dutch-derived patroon leasehold system, triggered by collection of Stephen Van Rensselaer's back rents, ending in the 1846 constitutional ban on long-term leases.
Anti-Rightist Campaign
The Anti-Rightist Campaign (反右派运动) was the CCP's 1957–58 purge following the Hundred Flowers period; 552,877 people were formally labeled rightists under quota systems run by Deng Xiaoping, with lasting economic effects measured to 2000.
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-Secession Law
The Anti-Secession Law (反分裂国家法) is a Chinese law adopted on 14 March 2005 by the National People's Congress, authorizing non-peaceful means against Taiwan independence while stating principles for peaceful reunification.
Anti-siphoning laws in Australia
Anti-siphoning laws in Australia, under the Broadcasting Services Act 1992, keep listed major sporting events available free to air by barring pay TV and, since 17 December 2024, streaming services from buying rights first.
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-social behaviour order
Anti-social behaviour order (ASBO): British civil order under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 prohibiting named acts or places, breach a criminal offence; replaced in England and Wales in 2014 by civil injunctions and CBOs, still used in Scotland.