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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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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More than Cricket and Football

International Sport and the Challenge of Celebrity

Edited by Joel Nathan Rosen and Maureen M. Smith; Foreword by Roberta J. Park; Afterword by Jack Lule
University Press of Mississippi

A passport to the many nations, sports stars, and sports across the globe

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Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism

University Press of Mississippi

A history of anticommunist rhetoric and its impact on the Black freedom struggle in America

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American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment

University Press of Mississippi

How the United States government tried to define, displace, and control indigenous peoples while American Indians refused to surrender their voices

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War Noir

Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction

University Press of Mississippi

A recognition of the intense role war trauma played in the great writer’s characters and legacy

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Teche

A History of Louisiana's Most Famous Bayou

University Press of Mississippi

An extraordinary engagement with the colorful history of a storied inland waterway

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Mississippi

The Long, Hot Summer

University Press of Mississippi

The original sociological encounter with the riven demographics of the closed society

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Yodeling and Meaning in American Music

University Press of Mississippi

The first musicological and ideological examination of the rich yodeling tradition

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Joe T. Patterson and the White South's Dilemma

Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement

University Press of Mississippi

How white resistance operated and adapted to the sweeping forces of racial change

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Clockwork Rhetoric

The Language and Style of Steampunk

Edited by Barry Brummett
University Press of Mississippi

How the language of the imaginatively styled movement attracts followers to steampunk aesthetic

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The Comic Book Film Adaptation

Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre

University Press of Mississippi

The first study of how the comic book moved to the center of Hollywood film production in the twenty-first century

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Trouble in Goshen

Plain Folk, Roosevelt, Jesus, and Marx in the Great Depression South

University Press of Mississippi

The untold story of three New Deal cooperative farms in the most economically challenged places in the South

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The Port Royal Experiment

A Case Study in Development

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of the emancipated islands of the Carolina coast and how their history sheds light on the difficulties of nation building

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Parchman

University Press of Mississippi

Powerful first-hand witness to the prison experience in Mississippi’s sprawling penitentiary farm

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Dan Duryea

Heel with a Heart

University Press of Mississippi

The biography of a devoted family man best known for his roles as abusive villains

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Conversations with Michael Chabon

University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the renowned author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

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Conversations with William Gibson

University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the author of Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History

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Expressions of Place

The Contemporary Louisiana Landscape

University Press of Mississippi

Contemporary artists revealing the state’s urban landscapes, southwestern swamps, central prairies, verdant forests, and northern fields

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Madeline Kahn

Being the Music, A Life

University Press of Mississippi

The first biography of the great comedic actress and star of stage and screen

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Bertrand Tavernier

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the director who is widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s, in the wake of the New Wave

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Lucky Dogs

From Bourbon Street to Beijing and Beyond

University Press of Mississippi

An insider's account of the iconic hotdog cart business and its role in the French Quarter and the world

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The Mississippi Secession Convention

Delegates and Deliberations in Politics and War, 1861-1865

University Press of Mississippi

The first examination of the entire convention and the men who deliberated there

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She Could Be Chaplin!

The Comedic Brilliance of Alice Howell

University Press of Mississippi

The first book-length appreciation of one of the most important comediennes of the silent film era

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To Write in the Light of Freedom

The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools

University Press of Mississippi

A collection and examination of the creative literary work of Freedom School students discovering pathways to racial justice

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Susan Sontag

The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated

University Press of Mississippi

An intimate portrait of the famed writer, director, and activist

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Pelican Road

A Novel

University Press of Mississippi

The riveting story of a lost way of life along a great southern railroad

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Outsider Art

Visionary Worlds and Trauma

University Press of Mississippi

An unparalleled exploration of the power of art and the impulse of creation

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Mississippians in the Great War

Selected Letters

University Press of Mississippi

A fascinating collection of correspondence from soldiers, nurses, and relief workers during World War I

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Medievalist Comics and the American Century

University Press of Mississippi

Why so many American comics fans avidly follow medieval heroes

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Inventing George Whitefield

Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough reckoning of the evolving ideas and legacy of a founding force in American evangelism

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Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians, and Other Persons of Interest

Fifty Pieces from the Road

University Press of Mississippi

A compilation from the incomparable career of one of the original “Boys on the Bus”

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