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Duke · Ethnic & African American Studies

28.2% of Duke'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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Duke: 28.2% 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
22%Left75–91
73%Center-left59–74
6%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
51 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

AAAS246 · Sociology of Racism in America83

Ethnic & African American Studies

Examines social history of major racial groups in the US and relationships to contemporary standing. Discusses central concepts sociologists use to analyze racial matters. Central theme: 'racism' is not mere 'prejudice,' 'ignorance,' or…

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AAAS201 · Race, Film, and Religion82

Ethnic & African American Studies

In this course, we will examine how cinema both constructs and reproduces anti-black racism and how cinema works to liberate blackness from the strictures of racial domination. We will watch films from the past three decades that provide an…

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AAAS272 · Environmental Justice: The Making of a Modern Movement82

Ethnic & African American Studies

This class puts the rise of the environmental justice movement in historical context. Students will be introduced to EJ through its foundational texts. Subsequent modules will then look at: how EJ critiqued the earlier environmentalism…

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Furthest right

None. Duke Ethnic & African American Studies has 51 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Duke · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share28.2—181—
Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share24.723.7 – 25.67,955—
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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