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Harvard University · Ethnic & African American Studies

22.8% of Harvard University'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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Harvard University: 22.8% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

23%Far left92–100

46%Left75–91

31%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

26 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

EMR 173 · Indigeneity Against Settler-Colonialism100

Ethnic & African American Studies

We live in a settler-colonial present. Colonizers, as the Australian anthropologist Patrick Wolfe put it, "come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event." This course interrogates this claim by nvestigating the histories, geographies…

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AFRAMER 135Y · Black Feminist Theory Seminar96

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course traces the development of Black feminist theory and thought, from 19th century thinkers such as Anna Julia Cooper, Maria Stewart, Ida B. Wells through 20th century movements including identity politics, standpoint theory,…

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EMR 1030 · Topics in Native American and Indigenous Studies: Native North America94

Ethnic & African American Studies

The first Americans met Europeans on their shores over five hundred years ago. They made the continent theirs millennia prior. And yet, Indigenous Americans are often missing, or misrepresented—in traditional, even contemporary portraits of…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Harvard University Ethnic & African American Studies has 26 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
Harvard University · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	22.8	—	101	—
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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