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Claremont McKenna College · Ethnic & African American Studies

40% of Claremont McKenna College's Ethnic & African American Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Ethnic & African American Studies departments, it is 24.7%.

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Claremont McKenna College: 40% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100

60%Left75–91

40%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

5 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Framing Subject

Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.

Furthest-left subjects

AFRI 124 · Post Colonial African Theory83

Ethnic & African American Studies

Post-colonial theory, popularized by Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gaytri Spivak, deploys theoretical structures and ideas from the West to interpret the status and structure of former colonized territories. Post colonial theory argues…

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AFRI 125 · Afro-Pessimism and the Politics of Hope83

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course will survey the deep and dark history of dreams, accomplishments and roadblocks that have constituted and continue to influence the ways Blacks in America negotiate a compromised political position. Traversing history from the…

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AFRI 121 · Africana Philosophy80

Ethnic & African American Studies

Philosophical thought and the philosophical cannon cannot be restricted to the 'great thinkers' of western history. This course will be a general introduction to Africana Philosophy. We will unveil not only that philosophy is more than the…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Claremont McKenna College Ethnic & African American Studies has 5 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Claremont McKenna College · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	40	—	10	—
Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	24.7	23.7 – 25.6	7,955	—

Formula: 100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval: Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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