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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