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Vanderbilt University · Ethnic & African American Studies

12.5% of Vanderbilt 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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Vanderbilt University: 12.5% 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

9 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Furthest left

AADS4198 · Global Anti-Blackness and Black Power73

Ethnic & African American Studies

The relationship and relevance of Black Power to anti-blackness in the United States and globally. The systemic marginalization and exclusion of blacks in public life. Their resilience against and resistance to those efforts. [3] (INT)

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ASAM2101 · Asian American History until 192467

Ethnic & African American Studies

The Manila Galleon Trade until the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924. Labor, race, and gender at the root of Asian American history. Settler colonialism, labor migration, and Asian exclusion. Offered on a graded basis only. [3] (US) (CORE C) (LE HFA)

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AADS3178 · Colonialism and Its Afterlives65

Ethnic & African American Studies

African and Caribbean cultures of colonialism. Forms of decolonization and the predicament of neocolonialism from the emergence of capitalism to the present. The historical and anthropological projects of empire and race-making. Causes and…

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Furthest right

None. Vanderbilt University Ethnic & African American Studies has 9 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Vanderbilt University · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	12.5	—	72	—
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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