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University of Tennessee-Knoxville · Ethnic & African American Studies

17.6% of University of Tennessee-Knoxville'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 Tennessee-Knoxville: 17.6% 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

47%Left75–91

47%Center-left59–74

6%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

17 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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

AFST 430 · Black and Indigenous Literatures90

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course explores literary depictions of the relationships between Black and Indigenous peoples in the United States. Students will critically examine literary texts and historical documents from the nineteenth century to the present-day…

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AFST 425 · Black Feminist Theory88

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course explores the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class as it pertains to African American women. This class explores Black feminist theory across time (from the nineteenth century to the present-day) and genre…

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AFST 236 · Introduction to African Studies83

Ethnic & African American Studies

Multidisciplinary study of Africa and its incorporation into the world economy between the 16th and the 20th century. Includes the rise of nationalism, post-colonial dependency, contemporary problems, and current liberation struggles in…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Tennessee-Knoxville Ethnic & African American Studies has 16 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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 Tennessee-Knoxville · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	17.6	—	34	—
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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