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Boston College · Ethnic & African American Studies33.3% of Boston College'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.
Ethnic & African American Studies
Alicia Wormsley's billboard installation declared "There are Black people in the future." This course considers the ways visions of futurity have fueled the resistance of communities of the African diaspora against racial exclusion and…
Ethnic & African American Studies
This course will examine how individual, institutional, and structural level factors reproduce and reinforce white supremacy. Specifically, we will investigate anti-Black racism and colorism as it functions as a facet of white supremacy in…
Ethnic & African American Studies
Fulfills the U.S. History requirement for History Majors. This course introduces undergraduates to African American history from the Middle Passage to the Civil War. Lectures, readings, and class discussions will call on students to analyze…
None. Boston College Ethnic & African American Studies has 21 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston College · Ethnic & African American Studies | bias_left_share | 33.3 | — | 48 | — |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | bias_left_share | 24.7 | 23.7 – 25.6 | 7,955 | — |