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.
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
Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana
Never before in English, a travel-adventure novel of two young women navigating antebellum Louisiana
The Comics World
Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics
A thoroughly researched collection designed to engage with the social sciences in order to expand comics studies as a field
Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname
Available in English for the first time, the integral and only book on all the music of a most diverse nation
Robert Kirkman
Conversations
Collected interviews with the comics fan-turned-creator best known for The Walking Dead andInvincible
Rebirth of the English Comic Strip
A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870
A master scholar’s thorough study of the neglected but vital age in which the term “cartoon” was coined
One Grand Noise
Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World
The first comprehensive study of how Boxing Day is celebrated across the Caribbean
New York City Blues
Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond
A lively and detailed exploration of the history of the blues from the 1940s to the 1990s in the City That Never Sleeps
In Search of Ancient Kings
Egúngún in Brazil
A firsthand account of the secretive Egúngún society from a scholar who would become a priest in the religion
Conversations with Angela Davis
Collected interviews with an influential educator, scholar, and activist, who is one of the most recognizable and iconic figures of the twentieth century
Alain Resnais
Interviews
A collection of twenty-one interviews with the French filmmaker of award-winning documentaries like Van Gogh and Night and Fog and groundbreaking dramas like Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad, and Muriel
Toni Morrison and the Natural World
An Ecology of Color
The first ecocritical treatment of the entire range of the Nobel Laureate’s mighty works
Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Art
The Ascendency of Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and Edmonia Lewis
The extraordinary struggle, achievement, loss and reclamation of three brilliant African American artists of the 1800s