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Duke · Ethnic & African American Studies28.2% 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%.
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.
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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…
Ethnic & African American Studies
Examines representations of the Atlantic slave trade in scholarship, literature, film, popular culture, and local site visits. We will examine portrayals of people who were enslaved, people who enslaved, as well as the nature of capture,…
Ethnic & African American Studies
How did the United States come to have the largest incarcerated population in the world and why are people across the nation calling for an end to over policing and mass incarceration, some even for the abolition of prison? What is…
Ethnic & African American Studies
The development of the slave trade from the fifteenth century to its abolition in the nineteenth century; organization and mechanics, impact on Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Ethnic & African American Studies
Against the cross-cultural backdrop of other systems of hereditary privilege and of the political and economic changes that threaten them, we will examine the history, the ideologies, and the psychology of white supremacy in the United…
Ethnic & African American Studies
Throughout the 20th century, South Africa had the largest economy and military on the African continent. Its strategic geographic position and mineral wealth in gold and uranium made it an important ally for the largest economies in the…
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.
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke · Ethnic & African American Studies | bias_left_share | 28.2 | — | 181 | — |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | bias_left_share | 24.7 | 23.7 – 25.6 | 7,955 | — |