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Yale University · Ethnic & African American Studies

38.9% of Yale University'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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Yale University: 38.9% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

5%Far left92–100
16%Left75–91
77%Center-left59–74
2%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
44 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

ER&M 725 · Decolonizing Europe100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Decolonial theory imagines a world different from the one created by the dominance of Western modernity. However, it is not necessarily obvious what Europe can contribute to this process, as the decentering of Europe and its intellectual…

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ER&M 271 · Media, Writing, and Feminist Resistance in the Americas96

Ethnic & African American Studies

From the crafting of the text “me too” in the United States to “not one less” in Latin America ­–to visibilize sexual abuse and combat feminicide respectively– multitudes of thousands have gathered in the streets and in the digital avenues…

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ER&M 439 · Fruits of Empire83

Ethnic & African American Studies

Readings, discussions, and research on imperialism and "green gold" and their consequences for the imperial powers and their colonies and neo-colonies. Spatially conceived as a world-system that enmeshes the planet and as earth's latitudes…

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Furthest right

None. Yale University Ethnic & African American Studies has 44 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Yale University · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share38.9—113—
Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share24.723.7 – 25.67,955—
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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