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.
Carolina Piedmont Country
A comprehensive view of the fascinating folklife in the Appalachian foothills of North and South Carolina
Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country
The first serious historical examination of a distinctive multiracial society of Louisiana
Reading Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
A handbook for interpreting Faulkner’s great novel
The Other Carl Sandburg
A portrait of the radical Sandburg before his days of glory in the pantheon of popular writers
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
Woke Me Up This Morning
Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life
Lords of Misrule
Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans
The often-bloody history of Mardi Gras and the uproar over the government’s enforcement of diversity in Carnival krewes
Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit
The Culture of Festivals in the American South
Remaking Dixie
The Impact of World War II on the American South
Roosevelt's Blues
African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR
In blues lyrics of the thirties and forties a reflection of FDR’s influence on Black America
Unflinching Gaze
Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned
A critical examination of the Faulkner-Morrison literary connection
Civil Rights Chronicle
Letters from the South
An outsider’s correspondence that documents the fight for civil rights in the Deep South
Conversations with N. Scott Momaday
Me
A Book of Remembrance
A Chinese-Eurasian’s autobiographical novel tracing a woman’s dual quest for a writing career and romance
Wiregrass Country
A look at a fascinating Deep South region and its distinctive way of life
Swapping Stories
Folktales from Louisiana
Transcribed oral tales that display the lively art of storytelling in the Bayou State
A Place Called Mississippi
Collected Narratives
An anthology of readings that reveal the mind and the character of the Magnolia State
