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Washington University in St. Louis · Ethnic & African American Studies

42.0% of Washington University in St. Louis'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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Washington University in St. Louis: 42.0% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

8%Far left92–100

47%Left75–91

35%Center-left59–74

8%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

2%Far right0–8

49 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

L90 1020 · First-Year Seminar: Black Lives Matter and100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Educational Justice for Black Youth In the wake of the global uprising against racial injustice, this introductory course examines how schools in the United States can create opportunities for Black youth to thrive. We will examine the…

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L90 3002 · Feminist Fire!: Radical Black Women in the 20th100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Century Black women have been at the forefront of the Black radical tradition since its inception. Oen marginalized in both the scholarship and the popular memory, there exists a long unbroken chain of women who have organized around the…

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L90 4103 · Black Decolonial Thought: Conceptualizing92

Ethnic & African American Studies

Epistemic Violence from Frantz Fanon to Achille Mbembe It is a truism that colonization has deeply impacted African societies, but we should also acknowledge the multiple ways of thinking and doing that are deployed on the continent. One of…

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Furthest-right subjects

L90 321C · African Civilization to 18000

Ethnic & African American Studies

Beginning with an introduction to the methodological and theoretical approaches to African history, this course surveys African civilization and culture from the Neolithic age until 1800 AD. Topics include African geography and…

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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
Washington University in St. Louis · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	42.0	—	81	—
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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