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Tufts University · Ethnic & African American Studies21.7% of Tufts 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.
Ethnic & African American Studies
(Cross-listed as ENG 188). An examination of texts, traces and testimonies of African insurrection during the official period of "chattel slavery." A creative survey of "slave revolts" (or uprisings) as well as "maroonage" (the flight from…
Ethnic & African American Studies
(Cross-listed as AMER 12 and LST 12) An examination of the meanings of race in modern America, the ways in which racism as a system functions, the root causes and consequences of racist ideologies, and current and future activist approaches…
Ethnic & African American Studies
(Cross-listed as AMER 49 and SOC 11) Sociological perspectives on race, ethnicity, and racial inequality in the United States. Exploration of histories of colonialism, slavery, and empire. Theories and concepts of prejudice, discrimination,…
Ethnic & African American Studies
A wide-ranging survey of the history, culture, and politics of people of African descent on the African continent and in the diaspora. Issues of colonialism, migration, slavery, revolution will be emphasized. The formation and growth of…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tufts University · Ethnic & African American Studies | bias_left_share | 21.7 | — | 23 | — |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | bias_left_share | 24.7 | 23.7 – 25.6 | 7,955 | — |