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
6%Far left92–100
54%Left75–91
32%Center-left59–74
3%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
3%Right9–25
2%Far right0–8
63 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.
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
ER&M 271 · Media, Writing, and Feminist Resistance in the Americas100
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…
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…
ER&M 229 · Marxism and Social Movements in the Twentieth Century98
Ethnic & African American Studies
The history of Marxism and its relation to the labor, feminist, and anticolonial social movements since the great upheavals of 1919. Topics include the Leninisms of the Communist movement, the anticolonial Marxisms of national liberation…
An introduction to the history of southern Africa, especially South Africa. Indigenous communities; early colonial contact; the legacies of colonial rule; postcolonial mismanagement; the vagaries of the environment; the mineral revolution;…
ER&M 357 · "None Dare Call It Conspiracy:" Paranoia and Conspiracy Theories in 20th and 21st C. America17
Ethnic & African American Studies
In this course we examine the development and growth of conspiracy theories in American politics and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We look at texts from a variety of different analytical and political traditions to develop an…
ER&M S391 · Histories of Racism in Science, Medicine, and the University17
Ethnic & African American Studies
In-person Course. This course examines the influence of Eugenics research, logics, and ideas across nearly every academic discipline in the 20th century, and the particular masks, tropes, and concepts that have been used to occlude…
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.
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Yale University · Ethnic & African American Studies
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.