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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

10%Far left92–100
40%Left75–91
20%Center-left59–74
20%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
10%Far right0–8
10 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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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

AFR 0088 · Slave Revolts and Maroons100

Ethnic & African American Studies

(Cross-listed as ENG 188). An examination of texts, traces and testimonies of African insurrection during the official period of "chattel slavery." A creative survey of "slave revolts" (or uprisings) as well as "maroonage" (the flight from…

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AAST 0012 · Race in America83

Ethnic & African American Studies

(Cross-listed as AMER 12 and LST 12) An examination of the meanings of race in modern America, the ways in which racism as a system functions, the root causes and consequences of racist ideologies, and current and future activist approaches…

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AFR 0011 · Sociology of Race & Ethnicity83

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 subjects

AFR 0092 · Introduction to Africana Studies0

Ethnic & African American Studies

A wide-ranging survey of the history, culture, and politics of people of African descent on the African continent and in the diaspora. Issues of colonialism, migration, slavery, revolution will be emphasized. The formation and growth of…

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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
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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