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62.2% of Williams College'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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Williams College: 62.2% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

15%Far left92–100

51%Left75–91

34%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

65 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

AAS 402 · Marxist Feminisms: Race, Performance, Labor (DPE)100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Cross-listings: WGSS 402 / AMST 402 Secondary Cross-listing This seminar provides an overview of queer, black and women of color feminist, decolonial, and critical ethnic studies critiques of orthodox Marxism. Beginning with core texts from…

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AFR 262 · Young, Gifted & Black : Meditations on the Revolutionary Black American Theatre Canon (DPE)100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Cross-listings: WGSS 268 / AMST 268 / THEA 268 Primary Cross-listing For millennia, Black theater traditions have functioned as tools of ritual: in the names of witnessing, protection, and alchemical change. In this course, we will study…

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AFR 364 · Black Political Thought100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Cross-listings: PSCI 361 Secondary Cross-listing This seminar will introduce students to the study of Black Political Thought as a set of critical normative and diagnostic gestures that help theorize the Black experience. By thrusting…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Williams College Ethnic & African American Studies has 65 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
Williams College · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	62.2	—	90	—
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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