The University Press of Mississippi was founded in 1970 and is supported by Mississippi's eight state universities. UPM publishes scholarly books of the highest distinction and books that interpret the South and its culture to the nation and the world. From its offices in Jackson, the University Press of Mississippi acquires, edits, distributes, and promotes more than eighty new books every year. Over the years, the Press has published more than 1000 titles and distributed more than 2,600,000 copies worldwide, each with the Mississippi imprint.
The Drum Is a Wild Woman
Jazz and Gender in African Diaspora Literature
A repositioning, reinvention, and reclamation of jazz writing by powerful women writers
The Circus Is in Town
Sport, Celebrity, and Spectacle
A tracking of the most explosive collisions between athletic reputation and public scandal
Performing Racial Uplift
E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era
A groundbreaking rediscovery of a classically trained innovator and powerful teacher who set milestones for African American singers and musicians
Drawing the Past, Volume 2
Comics and the Historical Imagination in the World
The conclusion of a worldwide study that investigates the role comics play in historical memory
Drawing the Past, Volume 1
Comics and the Historical Imagination in the United States
The first installment of a tremendous exploration between comics and history
Conversations with Dave Eggers
A collection of thirty-four interviews with a publisher, editor, and bestselling writer who is known for his range of works and breadth of philanthropic pursuits
Black Man in the Netherlands
An Afro-Antillean Anthropology
A memoir and anthropological annunciation of how anti-racism is transforming the Caribbean and the Old World
The Savvy Sphinx
How Garbo Conquered Hollywood
The in-depth and revealing story of how one of the world’s most famous actors rose to stardom and then walked away from Hollywood
The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson
The story of an enslaved man who became a Georgia state senator, helped found a church, and led his people to promise and hope
The Films of Fred Schepisi
A thorough treatment of the Australian director’s methods, output, and brilliant global arc
Taking a Stand
Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians as Public Intellectuals
A comprehensive study of comedy as social discourse and how comedians influence public opinion
Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam
Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội
The inspiring story of the godfather of Vietnamese jazz
Otto Preminger
Interviews
A collection of interviews with the prolific Austro-Hungarian-born director known for challenging the status quo in Hollywood throughout his trailblazing career directing films like The Moon is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and Anatomy of a Murder
Otto Preminger
Interviews
A collection of interviews with the prolific Austro-Hungarian-born director known for challenging the status quo in Hollywood throughout his trailblazing career directing films like The Moon is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and Anatomy of a Murder
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard
Folklore and Culture in Jamaica
An exploration of two sisters’ writings that emphasizes Jamaica from a local perspective
Curious about George
Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism
The first book-length study of one of literature’s most valuable, ubiquitous children’s characters
Worlds beyond My Window
The Life and Work of Gertrude McCarty Smith
A kaleidoscope of creativity explodes on the page from one of the South’s most underappreciated artists
The Jazz Masters
Setting the Record Straight
An unprecedented jam session on memories and music from the best in jazz
The Jazz Masters
Setting the Record Straight
An unprecedented jam session on memories and music from the best in jazz
Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric
A collection of new essays that redefine and restructure how communication scholars study the South
Poetic Song Verse
Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry
A thorough explication and revelation of the literary power in blues-fueled songwriting
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought
A biography of a trailblazer for abolition, gender equality, and social justice
Gorey Secrets
Artistic and Literary Inspirations behind Divers Books by Edward Gorey
A brilliant tour of the bookshelf and galleries that inspired one of the most literate, sophisticated, and wildly funny graphic masters of our time
Critical Essays on the Writings of Lillian Smith
The first collection of critical essays to explore the Georgia writer’s vast work and activism
Black Panther
Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon
The first in-depth study of one of Marvel’s most successful and culturally impactful films
A Sportsman's Journey
Expressive reminders of the power and spiritual pull of the natural world
Where Misfits Fit
Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks
How the hardscrabble borderland frontier of the Ozarks nurtured zones of creativity, community, and cults
Transforming Girls
The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence
A study of nineteenth-century young adult literature that refocuses the history of girls’ books and female adolescence in the United States and Germany
The Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath
Collected for the first time, an exploration of the artwork and commentary of a forgotten activist during the civil rights movement
Persistence through Peril
Episodes of College Life and Academic Endurance in the Civil War South
How eleven institutions remained open and maintained the mission of higher education during a national cataclysm
Fiddle Tunes from Mississippi
Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920-2018
270 musical examples plus biographies and photographs completing a vibrant picture of Mississippi’s fiddle tradition
Conversations with Sam Shepard
Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, director, author, and actor known for creating the Family Trilogy of plays and appearing in many films like The Right Stuff, Fool for Love, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou
Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites
A unique historical examination of Haitian Vodou’s political and religious origins
The Mama Chronicles
A Memoir
A beautifully written memoir of a Mississippi woman learning to reconnect with her aging mother
Mississippi Barking
Hurricane Katrina and a Life That Went to the Dogs
An emotional recounting of animal rescue during the aftermath of one of the nation’s worst storms
Whiskey, Women, and War
How the Great War Shaped Jim Crow New Orleans
An exciting and surprising history of the New Orleans home front during World War I
What the Children Said
Child Lore of South Louisiana
A deep exploration of children’s play and its impact on learning race, history, and sexuality
Rulers of the SEC
Ole Miss and Mississippi State, 1959-1966
How two Mississippi universities won twelve of twenty-four championships to dominate sports and reign supreme in the SEC
Marginalized
Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender
A close analysis of southern women playwrights
Instruments of Empire
Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines
How a Philippine military band and their Black conductor dazzled America while soothing its racial anxieties