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University of Arizona · Ethnic & African American Studies

19.4% of University of Arizona'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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University of Arizona: 19.4% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

2%Far left92–100

31%Left75–91

65%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

2%Far right0–8

55 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Framing Subject

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.

Furthest-left subjects

AFAS 224 · Models of Resistance, Post 16th Cent. African Liberation Movements in Southeast100

Ethnic & African American Studies

There were actually several \"Souths\" during the Holocaust of Enslavement. However, courses taught in the era of African enslavement have tended to focus on the northern most regions, such as Virginia, which are often taken to represent-if…

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AFAS 222 · African American Studies: A History of Ideas88

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course is concerned with the history of oppression of African and other Indigenous peoples in the world and examines ideas by radical philosophers and scholars from the African Diaspora directed toward liberation from oppression.

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MAS 565 · Critical Race Theories for Policy and Practice85

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course starts from the premise that race is an essential social category for analyzing the policies and everyday practices experienced in American society. Students will review a variety of theories and discussions of race to learn how…

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Furthest-right subjects

AFAS 475 · USA & South Africa: Comparative Historical & Political Perspectives0

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course will focus on the historical and political developments of colonialism, racism, and racial segregation in the United States and in South Africa *(Azania) since the beginning of the colonialism-slavery epochs to the present. It…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of Arizona · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	19.4	—	180	—
Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	24.7	23.7 – 25.6	7,955	—

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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