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.

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Sombreros and Motorcycles in a Newer South

The Politics of Aesthetics in South Carolina's Tourism Industry

University Press of Mississippi

How South of the Border and Atlantic Beach reflect cultural shifts in a more inclusive South

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On Sunset Boulevard

The Life and Times of Billy Wilder

University Press of Mississippi

With a new epilogue, the definitive biography of one of the world’s greatest filmmakers

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Swamp Rat

The Story of Dixie's Nutria Invasion

University Press of Mississippi

The complicated story of the unstoppable expansion of nutria in America’s southern wetlands

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Living in Mississippi

The Life and Times of Evans Harrington

University Press of Mississippi

The biography of a scholar, an author, an advocate for racial advancement, and a liberal who stayed in Mississippi

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East Meets Black

Asian and Black Masculinities in the Post-Civil Rights Era

University Press of Mississippi

An interrogation of the harmful, binary stereotypes leveled against black and Asian men

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A Literary History of Mississippi

Edited by Lorie Watkins
University Press of Mississippi

The first comprehensive history of literature from a state with perhaps the nation’s richest literary lode

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The Mississippi Encyclopedia

University Press of Mississippi

An A-to-Z compendium of people, places, and events in Mississippi from prehistoric times to today

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The House That Sugarcane Built

The Louisiana Burguières

University Press of Mississippi

The multigenerational history of one of Louisiana's oldest dynasties and its empire of sugar and land

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Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara

Edited by Thabiti Lewis
University Press of Mississippi

Conversations with the author of the acclaimed works Gorilla, My Love; The Salt Eaters; and Those Bones Are Not My Child

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Boom's Blues

Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime

By Wim Verbei; Translated by Scott Rollins
University Press of Mississippi

A recovery of the first book-length study of the blues and the story behind the extraordinary Dutchman who wrote it under Nazi occupation

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Geographies of Cubanidad

Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba

University Press of Mississippi

A study of how notions of place and race inform the identities and performances of musicians in contemporary Cuba

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Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna

A Children's Classic at 100

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough examination of the context and impact of the irrepressibly optimistic literary darling

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Beyond Windrush

Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A challenge to the primacy of the Windrush generation as the sole founders of Caribbean literature

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Last Man Standing

Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy

University Press of Mississippi

The story of the comic who took the stage with nothing but a newspaper and gave America an entirely new way to laugh

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Your Heritage Will Still Remain

Racial Identity and Mississippi's Lost Cause

University Press of Mississippi

How black and white Mississippians strove to define themselves and restrain each other

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City of Islands

Caribbean Intellectuals in New York

University Press of Mississippi

How Caribbean thinkers have broadly influenced American culture and the quest for racial justice

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The Writing Dead

Talking Terror with TV'S Top Horror Writers

University Press of Mississippi

Conversations with the creators, executive producers, and writers of today’s top horror shows

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Comfort Food

Meanings and Memories

University Press of Mississippi

The perfect collection for anyone seeking to understand the cultural importance of comfort food

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Dis-Orienting Planets

Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction

University Press of Mississippi

A star map of the galactic voyage from Yellow Peril and techno-Orientalism to dazzling stories by and about Asians

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Dancing with My Father

University Press of Mississippi

A daughter’s remembrance of life with the eccentric genius and artist Walter Anderson

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Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of how nineteenth-century African American folklore studies became a site of national debate

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Bending Steel

Modernity and the American Superhero

University Press of Mississippi

How superheroes grappled with industrialism, modernism, and capitalism

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Curatorial Conversations

Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival

University Press of Mississippi

Curators reflect on a half century of the nation’s public presentation of living cultural heritage

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Retcon Game

Retroactive Continuity and the Hyperlinking of America

University Press of Mississippi

How comics introduced a sharp metaphor for America’s growing recognition of a mutable past

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Fred Schepisi

Interviews

Edited by Tom Ryan
University Press of Mississippi

A master class on film direction in which Schepisi provides a goldmine of insights into his films, his filmmaking style, and what makes him tick as an artist

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I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone

University Press of Mississippi

A passionate insider’s account from a major mover and shaker in the American music scene

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Hazel Brannon Smith

The Female Crusading Scalawag

University Press of Mississippi

How one woman and her newspaper defied the white status quo and won a Pulitzer Prize

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Beyond Control

The Mississippi River’s New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico

University Press of Mississippi

A detailed chronicle of how the wild Mississippi will eventually deliver a cataclysm

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A Year in Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

Glorious moments from all of Mississippi’s seasons in the Capital, the Delta, the Hill Country, the Piney Woods, and on the Coast

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Vampires and Zombies

Transcultural Migrations and Transnational Interpretations

University Press of Mississippi

Essays that hunt down what happens when the undead go global

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On the Graphic Novel

University Press of Mississippi

An essential history of the narrative art form’s global rise

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Flight Risk

Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy

University Press of Mississippi

A rebellious native son attempts to escape the magnetic pull of New Orleans

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Three Lives for Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

The only complete, on-the-scene account of the heinous Freedom Summer murders in Mississippi

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Asian Comics

University Press of Mississippi

The wide-ranging, authoritative story of thriving comics production and creativity in Asia

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Freedom Rider Diary

Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison

By Carol Ruth Silver; Introduction by Raymond Arsenault; Photographs by Claude A. Liggins; Afterword by Cherie A. Gaines
University Press of Mississippi

One woman’s harrowing, unforgettable account from the nadir of Jim Crow Mississippi

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The Artist's Sketch

A Biography of Painter Kate Freeman Clark

University Press of Mississippi

The unexpected story of a painter who flourished then withdrew and a small town’s discovery of a treasure

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Negotiating Difference in French Louisiana Music

Categories, Stereotypes, and Identifications

University Press of Mississippi

How Louisiana musicians and audiences negotiate with difference and shape a common musical heritage

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Right to Revolt

The Crusade for Racial Justice in Mississippi's Central Piney Woods

University Press of Mississippi

A revelation of the valorous nonviolent efforts wielded to motivate change in a “moderate” part of the segregated South

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Rough South, Rural South

Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A critical companion to the striking variety of contemporary southern literature

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Martin Scorsese

Interviews, Revised and Updated

Edited by Robert Ribera
University Press of Mississippi

This collection traces Scorsese’s evolution from the earliest days of the New American Cinema, his work with Roger Corman, and his days at New York University’s film program to his efforts to preserve the legacy of cinema, his documentary work, and his recent string of successes.

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Ain't There No More

Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Plain

University Press of Mississippi

A harrowing account of coastal erosion, long neglect, and a man-made disaster in the Bayou State

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The Good Doctors

The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care

University Press of Mississippi

The extraordinary tale of health care professionals who fought the crippling effects of segregation and challenged the medical establishment

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Peter Bogdanovich

Interviews

Edited by Peter Tonguette
University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the director of The Last Picture Show, What’s Up Doc?, and Daisy Miller

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Brian De Palma's Split-Screen

A Life in Film

University Press of Mississippi

A biographical approach to the films of a controversial and provocative director

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Alexander Payne

Interviews

Edited by Julie Levinson
University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the director of Citizen Ruth, Nebraska, and The Descendants

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Superheroes on World Screens

University Press of Mississippi

Essays exploring the many ways in which superheroes no longer belong solely to America

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Minority Relations

Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation

University Press of Mississippi

How minority groups negotiate thorny but critical public policy issues in America

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Conversations with Stanley Kunitz

University Press of Mississippi

Interviews derived from four decades of this American poet’s distinguished career

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Winnie Lightner

Tomboy of the Talkies

University Press of Mississippi

The biography of the spunky “Song a Minute Girl,” the first actress to have her spoken words censored

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Peter Bagge

Conversations

Edited by Kent Worcester
University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the creator of the comics series Hate and the former editor of the often outrageous Weirdo magazine

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