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Davidson College · Ethnic & African American Studies

58.2% of Davidson 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%.

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Davidson College: 58.2% 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
31%Left75–91
69%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
32 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

AFR 321 · Special Topics: Black Lives and Black Protests in the Americas and the Caribbean89

Ethnic & African American Studies

Instructor Staff In all societies, present and historical, people have joined together to press for or against social change. In this course, we are most interested in the struggles of people who imagined and sometimes- even if only…

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AFR 223 · Black Freedom Dreams88

Ethnic & African American Studies

Instructor Garcia-Rojas This course explores the freedom dreams of Black political actors and thinkers alongside the carceral politics of the U.S. We will engage through a conceptual framework multiple genres and mediums (autobiographies,…

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AFR 331 · African Feminisms85

Ethnic & African American Studies

Instructor Harper-Shipman In this course, we examine African feminisms as both a theoretical account and an activist praxis that considers how gendered differences are grounded in the complex realities of African women's everyday…

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Furthest right

None. Davidson College Ethnic & African American Studies has 32 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Davidson College · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share58.2—55—
Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share24.723.7 – 25.67,955—
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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