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Tufts University · Ethnic & African American Studies

21.7% of Tufts 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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Tufts University: 21.7% 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
0%Left75–91
100%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 framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

AFR 0118 · (Mis-)Translating Vodun: Africana Religious Cultures and the Politics of Interpretation73

Ethnic & African American Studies

(Cross-listed w/REL 140, CST 118, and AMER 118) A historical and comparative examination of the history of cultural contact between Vodun religious cultures and the Western world, with specific attention to issues of translation and…

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AFR 0161 · Black Prison Writing72

Ethnic & African American Studies

The historical connections between imprisonment or incarceration and enslavement, today often termed "mass incarceration" or the prison-industrial complex." Constructs and reviews "Black Prison Writing" referring to intellectual texts by…

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AFR 0011 · Sociology of Race & Ethnicity70

Ethnic & African American Studies

(Cross-listed as AMER 49 and SOC 11) Sociological perspectives on race, ethnicity, and racial inequality in the United States. Exploration of histories of colonialism, slavery, and empire. Theories and concepts of prejudice, discrimination,…

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Furthest right

None. Tufts University Ethnic & African American Studies has 5 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
Tufts University · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share21.7—23—
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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