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Indiana University-Bloomington · Ethnic & African American Studies

6.6% of Indiana University-Bloomington'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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Indiana University-Bloomington: 6.6% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

5%Far left92–100

26%Left75–91

61%Center-left59–74

3%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

5%Far right0–8

38 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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

AAAD-A 156 · Black Liberation Struggles against Jim Crow and Apartheid100

Ethnic & African American Studies

A comparative perspective on American race relations, specifically the similarities and differences of the struggles against Jim Crow in America and against apartheid in South Africa. In both places, the late twentieth century witnessed a…

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AAAD-A 420 · Transforming Divided Communities and Societies100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Histories, theories, policies, and citizen, state, corporate, nonprofit sector models of transforming past and present societies divided by race, ethnicity, gender, class, caste, tribe, and religion through restorative and distributive…

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AAAD-A 620 · Transforming Divided Communities and Societies90

Ethnic & African American Studies

Investigation of divided societies and of strategies for transforming such communities. Students will consider societies (both past and present) divided by race, ethnicity, gender, class, caste, tribe, or religion, and will study responses…

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Furthest-right subjects

AAAD-A 360 · Slavery: Worldwide Perspective8

Ethnic & African American Studies

Examines several aspects of the classical, indigenous, and modern political/social bondage.

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AAAD-A 557 · Race and Politics in the African Diaspora8

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course introduces students to theories, methodologies, and scholarship on the relationship between race and politics in the African Diaspora by examining central themes relating to the state, citizenship, public policy, racial…

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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
Indiana University-Bloomington · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	6.6	—	166	—
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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