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.
Season to Taste
Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Food Memoirs
An exciting and detailed study of the explosion of women’s food writing in the early 2000s
Hidden Harmonies
Women and Music in Popular Entertainment
An exploration of the untold stories of lesser-known female musicians
Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 2
Critical Approaches
The second installment of an essential anthology on children's literature of the Caribbean and its diaspora
Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 1
History, Pedagogy, and Publishing
The first installment of an essential anthology on children's literature of the Caribbean and its diaspora
A Thousand Places Left Behind
One Soldier’s Account of Jungle Warfare in WWII Burma
A veteran's harrowing remembrance of jungle warfare and intelligence operations
To Dance, to Live
A Biography of Thalia Mara
A moving biography of a dancer, teacher, and arts patron recognized internationally for her efforts in dance education and for bringing world-class ballet to Mississippi
The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education
Elizabeth and Waties Waring's Campaign
An illuminating look at the little-known rhetorical campaign that helped advance the cause of school desegregation
Race and the Animated Bodyscape
Constructing and Ascribing a Racialized Asian Identity in Avatar and Korra
How race is constructed and ascribed in the fantasy world of one popular US franchise
Queer Oz
L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender
The first scholarly monograph to focus on L. Frank Baum’s portrayals of queerness and sexuality in his more than seventy works of fiction
If You Should Go at Midnight
Legends and Legend Tripping in America
A fun and thorough investigation of the captivating world of legend tripping
Abbas Kiarostami
Interviews
A well-rounded picture of the late Iranian filmmaker through his conversations with journalists, film scholars, critics, students, and audience members
Funkiest Man Alive
Rufus Thomas and Memphis Soul
The lively story of the rise of R&B in Memphis through the eyes of one of its powerhouses
With Hawks and Angels
Episodes from a Southern Life
A funny, fascinating chronicle of a privileged misfit from Louisiana and the journey for self that took him around the world
William Levi Dawson
American Music Educator
The story of a resolute African American composer and educator who flourished during the oppressive Jim Crow Era
Memories of Africa
Home and Abroad in the United States
A study on the unique capacity of African Diasporic memoirs to render African migrant experiences
Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr.
An indispensable source to American literature and African American studies offering an account of Ward’s intelligent and thoughtful responses to questions about literature, literary criticism, teaching, writing, civil rights, Black aesthetics, race, and culture
Conversations with Beth Henley
Nearly forty years of interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter
Bloodstained Narratives
The Giallo Film in Italy and Abroad
Critical essays on the transnational thriller genre that influenced myriad horror films
African American Adolescent Female Heroes
The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative
A scholarly examination of contemporary neo-slave narratives and their African American heroines
A Slow, Calculated Lynching
The Story of Clyde Kennard
The harrowing, yet pivotal, story of a brilliant integration advocate