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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Conversations with Sarah Schulman

Edited by Will Brantley
University Press of Mississippi

Thirty years of interviews spanning the career of the novelist, screenwriter, and gay activist whose works include After Delores and Maggie Terry

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Black Hibiscus

African Americans and the Florida Imaginary

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of the significant literary and cultural contributions from African Americans in the Sunshine State

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Bayou Harvest

Subsistence Practice in Coastal Louisiana

University Press of Mississippi

An in-depth study of the power and pride of cooking, hunting, harvesting, foraging, and thriving in coastal Louisiana

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The Delta in the Rearview Mirror

The Life and Death of Mississippi's First Winery

University Press of Mississippi

A firsthand account of the splendid rise and frightening fall of Mississippi’s first winery

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Tending to the Past

Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom

University Press of Mississippi

How Black writers have circumvented stereotypes to positively portray Black survival, creativity, and autonomy to young readers

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Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II

A Legacy of African American Athletic Activism

University Press of Mississippi

New perspectives on the ways Black athletes wield their sports platform to address inequalities

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Sounding Our Way Home

Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity

University Press of Mississippi

A generation-spanning history of music making and the sense of belonging it engenders

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See Justice Done

The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition

University Press of Mississippi

An analysis of the fraught relations between Black writing and the law

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Dorothy Arzner

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Insights into the career of one of Golden Age Hollywood’s first and most prolific female directors who was best known for The Bride Wore Red

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Conversations with Orhan Pamuk

University Press of Mississippi

Thirty interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist best known for My Name Is Red, Snow, and The Museum of Innocence

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Comics and Modernism

History, Form, and Culture

University Press of Mississippi

The first collection to engage with the fascinating overlap between comics and modernism

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Vibe

The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South

University Press of Mississippi

A journey into the inner lives of Black southerners through the reverberations of trap music

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Poor Gal

The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane

University Press of Mississippi

The telling journey of a centuries-old tune and what it says about race, class, and American folk music

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Learning Jazz

Jazz Education, History, and Public Pedagogy

University Press of Mississippi

A call for collaboration and understanding in how we learn jazz in diverse settings

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Intersecting Aesthetics

Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness

University Press of Mississippi

How twentieth-century Black writers and filmmakers struggled to create authentic adaptations that reflected Black experiences

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From Biblical Book to Musical Megahit

William B. Bradbury's Esther, the Beautiful Queen

University Press of Mississippi

The compelling history of an acclaimed and enduring musical piece

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Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard

Edited by Bob Blaisdell
University Press of Mississippi

Twenty-two interviews with the Norwegian author and winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature who is best known for his two autobiographical series My Struggle and the Seasons quartet

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Civic Buildings after the Spanish-American War

University Press of Mississippi

How Beaux-Arts edifices reveal the United States’ imperialistic vision in the Caribbean

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Body Genre

Anatomy of the Horror Film

University Press of Mississippi

A first-of-its-kind study of the relationship between human anatomy and horror

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What a Difference a Day Makes

Women Who Conquered 1950s Music

University Press of Mississippi

A fun-filled survey of the women who topped the charts in jazz, blues, R&B, and rock ’n’ roll

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Rowdy Boundaries

True Mississippi Tales from Natchez to Noxubee

University Press of Mississippi

Narratives of the good, the bad, and the outlandish in legal tangles along Mississippi’s borders

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Roots Punk

A Visual and Oral History

University Press of Mississippi

An entertaining and thorough introduction to the power of punk’s hybrid evolution

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Ben Katchor

University Press of Mississippi

The first book dedicated to exploring the comics of Ben Katchor

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Backseat Quarterback

University Press of Mississippi

A wife’s insider story of her marriage to a famous New York Giant during the golden days of professional football

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All I Want Is Loving You

Popular Female Singers of the 1950s

University Press of Mississippi

A delightful visit with the talented, yet often overlooked, white female vocalists of the 1950s

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Afrocentricity in AfroFuturism

Toward Afrocentric Futurism

Edited by Aaron X. Smith; Foreword by Molefi Kete Asante
University Press of Mississippi

A vanguard challenge to unite two formerly independent fields in Black studies

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American Landscapes

Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World

University Press of Mississippi

A lushly illustrated consideration of the significance of landscapes in art and literature during times of unprecedented change

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Ferocious Ambition

Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom

University Press of Mississippi

An astute, lavishly illustrated evaluation of one of Hollywood’s biggest stars

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Wading In

Desegregation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

University Press of Mississippi

A powerful history of the first nonviolent civil disobedience campaign along Mississippi’s beaches

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Robert Williams

Conversations

University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the founder of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine and coproducer of ZAP Comix who is known for his underground comix cartoons and oil paintings

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M. Night Shyamalan

Interviews

Edited by Adrian Gmelch
University Press of Mississippi

Two decades of interviews with the visionary filmmaker of such successful films as The Sixth Sense, Signs, and Unbreakable

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Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana

University Press of Mississippi

One writer’s odyssey through Louisiana folklore and history as he searches for the true meaning of home

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A Seat at the Table

Black Women Public Intellectuals in US History and Culture

University Press of Mississippi

A sounding of a profound, lasting imprint on intellectual history

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Love Letter from Pig

My Brother's Story of Freedom Summer

University Press of Mississippi

An inspiring, deeply personal story about a tumultuous period in civil rights history

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This Light of Ours

Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

Edited by Leslie G. Kelen; Foreword by Julian Bond; Afterword by Clayborne Carson
University Press of Mississippi

An astonishing visual record taken by photographers directly engaged in the struggle

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The Poacher's Nightmare

Stories of an Undercover Game Warden

University Press of Mississippi

The thrilling memoir of a covert wildlife agent

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The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker

University Press of Mississippi

A riveting true story of a Texas murder that captivated a nation and the evangelical voices who fought for Karla Faye Tucker's clemency

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Terror and Truth

Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement

University Press of Mississippi

The first critical examination of Mississippi’s civil rights tourism industry

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Exploring the Land of Ooo

An Unofficial Overview and Production History of Cartoon Network's Adventure Time

University Press of Mississippi

An extremely addictive, high-intensity, MATHEMATICAL! look at the world of a beloved animated television series

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Djeha, the North African Trickster

University Press of Mississippi

The first annotated English translation of sixty ancient folktales featuring an icon of the Maghreb

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