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00:0-1	Hi there . I'm Clint smith and I'm the host
00:02	of crash course black american history . I'm a writer
00:05	, a teacher and a doctor . No , not
00:08	the kind who can help you if you have some
00:09	sort of serious medical issue more like the kind who
00:12	spent way too many years holed up in the basement
00:14	of the library , reading books on race , inequality
00:17	, education and history before getting the letters PhD behind
00:21	my name . So while I can't perform open heart
00:23	surgery , I can tell you a lot about how
00:26	slavery shaped the course of american history in the ways
00:28	it's been taught in our schools . This series will
00:31	move from the moment enslaved black people First arrived on
00:34	the shores of the American British colonies in 1619 ,
00:37	all the way through the Black Lives Matter movement that
00:39	has pushed this country to more fully reckon with all
00:41	that it is done to black people and to more
00:44	fully acknowledge all that black americans have contributed to its
00:47	history . We should probably begin by addressing the name
00:50	of the course itself . Black american history . Over
00:53	the course of american history , the language used to
00:55	describe black people has changed and evolved over time and
00:59	will no doubt continue to change and evolve . Moving
01:01	forward across the United States today , the term black
01:05	and african americans are often used interchangeably and there's a
01:09	good chance that we'll use them interchangeably here as well
01:12	. Typically african american is meant to refer to people
01:15	of African descent who were born in , who are
01:17	living in the United States . In the US there
01:20	, black people whose ancestors were enslaved many generations ago
01:24	and who are unable to trace their lineage to a
01:27	specific place of origin . And there are black people
01:30	who immigrated to the United States just a few years
01:33	ago from countries all over the world . While people's
01:36	histories and experiences may be different , each of these
01:39	groups of people and everyone in between , it's black
01:43	and that plurality of experiences is both a remarkable and
01:47	just a beautiful thing as we'll discover , there's a
01:50	great deal of fluidity with regard to how these terms
01:53	are used and who they apply to and delving into
01:56	this will really help us understand how race is a
02:00	social construct , but also one that has very real
02:02	cultural sociological and political implications . Part of why this
02:07	show is so important to me personally is that when
02:10	I was younger , I felt like I didn't have
02:12	the language or the tool kit with which to fully
02:15	understand and make sense of what this country had done
02:17	to black people over the course of centuries . I
02:19	didn't know that 12 of the 1st 18 presidents owned
02:22	enslaved people . I didn't have the language to understand
02:26	how redlining and government sponsored housing segregation shaped the landscape
02:30	of contemporary America . I didn't know that new deal
02:33	legislation and the G . I . Bill after World
02:35	War Two purposely left out millions of black people from
02:39	accessing its benefits , basically trapping them in intergenerational poverty
02:43	. While millions of white americans received those benefits ,
02:46	giving them a leg up into purchasing homes , attending
02:49	and graduating college and moving comfortably into the middle class
02:52	. The sorts of things that have long term intergenerational
02:55	implications . I didn't know these things Because No one
02:59	told me , No one taught us this in school
03:02	and when I did learn it many years later ,
03:05	it was so important . It was so free because
03:08	it helped me better understand why our country looks the
03:11	way that it does today . It helped me understand
03:13	that the disparities black people experience in this country are
03:17	not because there's anything wrong with black people , but
03:19	because of everything that has been done to black people
03:22	over the course of generations now should be said that
03:25	sometimes when people think about black history , they think
03:28	only of slavery and oppression . And while slavery is
03:32	deeply , deeply important , trust me , I wrote
03:35	a whole book about it to understanding how black americans
03:38	first arrived here on mass , how the United States
03:40	developed its early economy and why so much inequality persist
03:44	between black and white americans across the board . It
03:47	would also be a mistake to conflict the story of
03:50	black life in this country singularly with the issue of
03:54	slavery , which is to say naming the centrality of
03:57	slavery to the american project can be done without falling
04:01	into the trap of suggesting that black history begins and
04:05	ends with slavery . Black history is more than slavery
04:10	. It is more than jim crow apartheid . It
04:12	is more than oppression . And while we will obviously
04:15	be addressing these issues directly , because they are central
04:18	to understanding how this country came to be , what
04:20	it is . We will also be talking about black
04:23	art , black literature , black cultural traditions and all
04:26	that black people have created an accomplished in spite of
04:30	centuries of both interpersonal and structural violence . Black american
04:33	history is as much about the joys and celebrations and
04:37	traditions of black life , as much as it is
04:39	about being able to name and identify the ways that
04:42	this country has long subjugated black people . They are
04:46	not and have never been mutually exclusive . In fact
04:50	, they go hand in hand . That being said
04:52	, we want to note that this series will address
04:55	topics that can be challenging to discuss , but we
04:58	believe it is important to cover them thoroughly so that
05:00	we can fully grapple with the reality of us history
05:03	. When watching this course , you will encounter some
05:06	information that may be sensitive and disturbing , but we'll
05:09	also try to let you know when they are extreme
05:11	cases . Over the course of this show , we
05:13	will do our very best to capture the various dimensions
05:16	of the black experience . But because we only have
05:18	50 episodes to tell these stories , there will inevitably
05:22	be some things that are left out . This show
05:25	is not at all meant to be a definitive history
05:27	of black american life . It is meant to be
05:30	just one contribution to a much wider conversation that has
05:33	been happening among scholars , writers , activists , and
05:36	citizens for generations . There's going to be a lot
05:38	to learn over the course of the show and a
05:41	lot to unlearn . But what we hope you come
05:43	to understand is that black history is not peripheral to
05:48	american history . It is central to it . Black
05:51	history is american history . So let's go . Crash
05:57	course is made with the help of all these nice
05:58	people and our animation team is thought catholic . Crash
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06:13	. Thank you to all our patrons for making Crash
06:15	course possible with their continued support .

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