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Yale University · Ethnic & African American Studies38.9% of Yale 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
From the crafting of the text “me too” in the United States to “not one less” in Latin America –to visibilize sexual abuse and combat feminicide respectively– multitudes of thousands have gathered in the streets and in the digital avenues…
Ethnic & African American Studies
Decolonial theory imagines a world different from the one created by the dominance of Western modernity. However, it is not necessarily obvious what Europe can contribute to this process, as the decentering of Europe and its intellectual…
Ethnic & African American Studies
The history of Marxism and its relation to the labor, feminist, and anticolonial social movements since the great upheavals of 1919. Topics include the Leninisms of the Communist movement, the anticolonial Marxisms of national liberation…
Ethnic & African American Studies
An introduction to the history of southern Africa, especially South Africa. Indigenous communities; early colonial contact; the legacies of colonial rule; postcolonial mismanagement; the vagaries of the environment; the mineral revolution;…
Ethnic & African American Studies
In this course we examine the development and growth of conspiracy theories in American politics and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We look at texts from a variety of different analytical and political traditions to develop an…
Ethnic & African American Studies
In-person Course. This course examines the influence of Eugenics research, logics, and ideas across nearly every academic discipline in the 20th century, and the particular masks, tropes, and concepts that have been used to occlude…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yale University · Ethnic & African American Studies | bias_left_share | 38.9 | — | 113 | — |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | bias_left_share | 24.7 | 23.7 – 25.6 | 7,955 | — |