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University of Washington · Ethnic & African American Studies

21.1% of University of Washington'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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University of Washington: 21.1% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

6%Far left92–100

42%Left75–91

46%Center-left59–74

3%Center42–58

2%Center-right26–41

2%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

65 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

AAS 320 · Hawaii's Literatures96

Ethnic & African American Studies

A&H, DIV Covers views by Native Hawaiian and multicultural writers and composers, studied within historical contexts ranging from the eighteenth century to the present. Examines how the colonization of a sovereign people redefines culture…

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AIS 380 · Indigenous Food Sovereignty92

Ethnic & African American Studies

SSc, DIV Food sovereignty within an Indigenous framework of decolonization and cultural revitalization. Demonstrates its potential to strengthen tribal autonomy, health, and wellness in Indigenous communities. How colonialism undermined…

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AIS 480 · Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence Movements in the United States,92

Ethnic & African American Studies

Canada, and Mexico (5) SSc, DIV Examines Indigenous resistance and resurgence movements in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Explores political and social contexts, political mobilization, cultural resurgence, and decolonizing struggles.

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Furthest-right subjects

CHSTU 435 · Latinas and Labor in the Neoliberal Age25

Ethnic & African American Studies

SSc, DIV Social, political, and economic forces shaping the lives of Latina workers under neoliberalism.

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AFRAM 270 · The Jazz Age33

Ethnic & African American Studies

SSc, DIV Interdisciplinary study of period after World War I to Great Crash. African American and Anglo American currents and impulses that flowed together in the Roaring Twenties. Covers politics of normalcy, economics of margin,…

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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
University of Washington · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	21.1	—	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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