This chapter presents commonly used terms in the study of postcolonialism. The terms listed begin with the alphabet “H”. Detailed explanation is provided for several terms, including hegemony, humanitarianism, humanism and hybridity. Each entry includes the origin of the term; a detailed explanation of its perceived meaning; and examples of the term's use in literary‐cultural texts. Cultural hegemony is the dominance of the European culture over the non‐European one, manifest best in the use of English, French, Spanish, Dutch and other European languages as the sign of social mobility and progress by the African or the Asian subject. Arising as moral position but also as active social political ethos, humanitarianism in 18th‐century Europe bestowed the task of saving, civilizing, conserving the non‐European parts of the world on Europeans. Hybridity was closely aligned with both Social Darwinism and racism because both refused the very idea of cultural‐racial mixing.