Embrace Messy History — Thinking about Race, Class, Gender, and the Sense of Place in Our Own Past (and not limited to the Other Person’s)

Trae Crowder has a series of videos in ‘Southin’ Off’ to explain the complex, but pointed, history of the American South region. It has been a very educative series, but one episode has to be listen to; in order to understand the nature of history, not necessarily of the other person’s, but of our own past.

The regions of northern Australia have parallels to the American South, as well as distinctive differences. However, what Trae is saying about the ‘Duality of the Southern Thing’ is what Australians need to embrace as its messy history. This is particularly true in the mythology we too much hear of, which is called the ‘Queensland character’. It is a false narrative and it must be forthrightly taken away from our gaze on the past. History is not caricature.

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Neville Buch

Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.

Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.

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