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University of Wisconsin-Madison · Ethnic & African American Studies

14.5% of University of Wisconsin-Madison'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 Wisconsin-Madison: 14.5% 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

33%Left75–91

42%Center-left59–74

8%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

17%Far right0–8

12 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

AFROAMER 338 · The Black Arts Movement83

Ethnic & African American Studies

3 credits. Focuses on the notion of blackness as it is developed in the poetry and drama of key figures of the 1960s Black Arts Movement. Emphasizes the emergence of a critical discourse specific to a "new" black aesthetic.

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CHICLA 315 · Racial Formation And Whiteness83

Ethnic & African American Studies

3 credits. Examines the construction of whiteness in the United States from the colonial period to the present with an eye to the ways in which Chicanx Latinx communities have engaged with whiteness. Learn and apply a variety of relevant…

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AFROAMER 456 · Soul Music And The African American79

Ethnic & African American Studies

3 credits. Focus on the place of music, musicians and the music industry in the African American Freedom Movement from the 1950s to the mid-1970s. Emphasis on the role of the black church, the organizing tradition, and the transition from Civil Rights to Black Power.

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Furthest-right subjects

AFROAMER 231 · Introduction To Afro-American History0

Ethnic & African American Studies

3 credits. Survey from the African beginnings to the present day. Focus on slave trade and slavery; major black figures of the past; social, economic, and political trends within the black community.

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AFROAMER 621 · Slavery And Capitalism In The United0

Ethnic & African American Studies

3 credits. Addresses the relationship between slavery and capitalism in the British North American colonies and the United States of America. Drawing on recent scholarship that explores how slavery and capitalism are independent systems,…

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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 Wisconsin-Madison · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	14.5	—	55	—
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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