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Vanderbilt University · Ethnic & African American Studies12.5% 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%.
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.
Ethnic & African American Studies
The Saint-Domingue Revolution from 1791 to 1803 and the development of Haiti from 1804 to the present. Haiti in global context; the revolution as a key moment in the Age of Revolution and the formation of the Black International. Historical…
Ethnic & African American Studies
1790 to the mid-twentieth century. Slave politics and abolition, the meaning of freedom after emancipation, and black workers' struggle for democracy and citizenship. Resistance to empire and colonialism. Migration, race and color ideology, religion, and culture. [3] (P)
Ethnic & African American Studies
Introduction to feminism in multiple diasporic places and communities. Comparison of black feminisms across time and space. [3] (INT)
Ethnic & African American Studies
Cultural, economic, and social aspects of the African slave trade into the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries. Transformation of the slave trade as a result of abolition and suppression. [3] (SBS)
Ethnic & African American Studies
Systems of African enslavement in the Americas as a subject of debate among popular and academic audiences. Memoirs, oral history, genealogy, literature, film, and other creative production. Public commemoration and tourist-related slavery…
Ethnic & African American Studies
The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 until the present day. Labor, empire, and migration in Asian America. Japanese incarceration, social movements in the 1960s, the model minority myth, and Asian Americans in popular culture today. Offered on a graded basis only. [3] (US)
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.
| 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 | — |
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