Jane-Marie Collins

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Teaching Summary

My teaching covers the history and culture of Brazil mostly from the late colonial period to the present day. This includes a a first year survey course of modern Brazilian history, a second year… read more

Research Summary

My recent monograph focused on enslaved motherhood, and included chapters on children in the transatlantic slave trade, enslaved childhood and childhood manumissions in nineteenth-century Bahia,… read more

Selected Publications

• COLLINS, J-M., 2006. Bearing the burden of bastardy: infanticide, child murder, race and motherhood in Brazilian slave society. In: BECHTOLD, B.H. and GRAVES, D.C., eds., Killing infants: studies in the worldwide practice of infanticide Lampeter: Edwin Mellen. 199-229
• COLLINS, J-M., 2007. Intimacy, inequality and democracia racial: theorizing race, gender and sex in the history of Brazilian race relations Journal of Romance Studies. 7(2), 19-34
• COLLINS, J.-C., 2013. Mãe Africana, Pátria Brasileira: negotiating the racial politics of identity, freedom and motherhood in nineteenth-century Bahia, Brazil University of Nottingham eRepository. Available at: <http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2192/>

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My teaching covers the history and culture of Brazil mostly from the late colonial period to the present day. This includes a a first year survey course of modern Brazilian history, a second year module on Black Brazilian abolitionism and Black Public Life, and final year module on Brazilian Slave Society, designed for students with or without Portuguese language skills.

Current Research

My recent monograph focused on enslaved motherhood, and included chapters on children in the transatlantic slave trade, enslaved childhood and childhood manumissions in nineteenth-century Bahia, Brazil. It is this area of historical research that I am now working on more closely.

Past Research

My research focus has been mostly historical and based in the archives of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Within this context, I have researched and published on themes of gender, race, and slavery during the nineteenth century. Themes examined related mainly to African women and their descendants, in enslavement and freedom and include: infanticide, slave resistance, criminality, creolization, manumission, miscegenation, mobility, modalities of family formation and patterns of accumulation.

Other research projects include nineteenth-century Black abolitionism in Brazil; Anglo-Brazilian relations during military rule in the twentieth century; and history of police and state violence in Brazil.

• JANE-MARIE COLLINS, 20023. Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888 Liverpool University Press.
• JANE-MARIE COLLINS, 2018. Parroting the past:: historical continuity and change through cultures of cruelty in Brazil Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 24(3), 3
• COLLINS, J.-C., 2013. Mãe Africana, Pátria Brasileira: negotiating the racial politics of identity, freedom and motherhood in nineteenth-century Bahia, Brazil University of Nottingham eRepository. Available at: <http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2192/>
• COLLINS, J.-M., 2009. 'Uteis a si e a sociedade' or a brief guide to creolisation in nineteenth-century Brazil: black women, mobility, marriage and markets in Salvador da Bahia (1830-1888) European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire. 16(3), 413-436
• COLLINS, J.-M., 2008. Intimidad, desigualdad y democracia racial: especulaciones sobre raza, género y sexo en la historia de las relaciones raciales en Brasil. In: WADE, P., URREA GIRALDO, F. and VIVEROS, M., eds., Raza, etnicidad y sexualidades: ciudadanía y multiculturalismo en América Latina Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. 377-402
• COLLINS, J-M., 2007. Intimacy, inequality and democracia racial: theorizing race, gender and sex in the history of Brazilian race relations Journal of Romance Studies. 7(2), 19-34
• COLLINS, J-M., 2006. Bearing the burden of bastardy: infanticide, child murder, race and motherhood in Brazilian slave society. In: BECHTOLD, B.H. and GRAVES, D.C., eds., Killing infants: studies in the worldwide practice of infanticide Lampeter: Edwin Mellen. 199-229
• COLLINS, JANE-MARIE, 1999. Slavery, Subversion and Subalternity: Gender and Violent Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Bahia. In: STILL, J. and RIBEIRO, S., eds., Brazilian Feminisms: Monographs in the Humanities Nottingham : University of Nottingham. 34-56