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.
Odd-Egg Editor
Remembering the sting of male discrimination she repeatedly endured during her career as a newspaper-woman, the author wistfully recalls the hurt of being overlooked, snubbed, and ribbed by her male colleagues
Sam Myers
The Blues Is My Story
A house-rocking blues life story of the late Mississippi-born front man of Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets
Andrei Tarkovsky
Interviews
A collection of interviews with the Russian filmmaker who directed Andrei Roublev, Solaris, and The Mirror
Ghost Hunters of the South
From across Dixie, profiles of irrepressible investigators of the paranormal
Dunlap
The first full-length book heralding this renowned artist’s achievements
Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?
Firsthand accounts of how life unfolded for the youth of the Age of Aquarius
Ed McGowin, Name Change
One Artist, Twelve Personas, Thirty-five Years
An overview of creations from the many identities of one artist
The University of Mississippi School of Law
A Sesquicentennial History
The story of one of the state’s formative institutions
Lotus Among the Magnolias
The Mississippi Chinese
A study showing how the Mississippi Chinese expanded their social and economic potential and moved away from restrictive beginnings
Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902
A revisionary study of Mississippi’s late nineteenth-century image as a one-party state of Democrats
Clarence John Laughlin
Prophet without Honor
A biography of a New Orleans photographer of worldwide acclaim
Conversations with Larry Brown
Interviews with the author of Dirty Work, Father and Son, Joe, and Big Bad Love
Race, Reform, and Rebellion
The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006, Third Edition
An update of one of the indispensable political and social histories of African Americans since World War II
Sacred and Profane
Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art
A sustained critical assessment of southern folk art and self-taught art and artists
Jimmie Rodgers
The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler
The definitive biography of the “Father of Country Music”
Father of the Comic Strip
Rodolphe Töpffer
A critical study of the Swiss artist who created the comic strip
The Beatles
Image and the Media
A study of the forces that transformed four Liverpool musicians into icons for the 1960s
The Circle of Guilt
A famed psychiatrist’s view of race, mass media, and a rush to judgment in New York City
Hands in the Till
Embezzlement of Public Monies in Mississippi
Rodolphe Töpffer
The Complete Comic Strips
The first English-language edition of the premier comic artist’s work
Words into Images
Screenwriters on the Studio System
An unprecedented view of Hollywood’s Golden Age
Buster Keaton
Interviews
Interviews with one of the most iconic stars of Hollywood’s silent and early sound eras
Affect and Power
Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion in Appreciation of Winthrop D. Jordan
An anthology honoring the work of the influential historian Winthrop D. Jordan
Born in the U.S.A.
The Myths of America in Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present
The vision of America seen through the lyrics of its popular songs
C. L. R. James and Creolization
Circles of Influence
A study that unites James and the individual pieces of his work in the full perspective of his thought
Connecting Times
The Sixties in Afro-American Fiction
A stimulating study of 1960s black literature that sees American history through the literary art that rose out of the painful conflicts of Black Power, Vietnam, and the Civil Rights Movement
Defining Travel
Diverse Visions
Faulkner and Race
Essays that focus on a theme central to understanding William Faulkner’s works and illuminate his various stances on race
Faulkner on the Color Line
The Later Novels
A study of William Faulkner’s final phase as a period in which he faced up to America’s rigid protocols of racial ideology
Gender and the Southern Body Politic
A re-examination of notable subjects in southern history through the unique lens of gender
Joseph E. Davis
Pioneer Patriarch
A closely observed view of the nineteenth-century South in a biography of the Confederate president’s elder brother
Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities
A close reading of international films that focus on diaspora and exile
Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars
A New Pandora's Box
A call to recognize Marxism’s underestimated influence on the course of African American letters
Native American Place Names in Mississippi
A comprehensive guide to the translations and tribal origins of five hundred intriguing designations
Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From
Lyrics and History
A vibrant and varied look at African American songs and the history behind the lyrics
Running Scared
Silver in Mississippi
The history of a university professor’s daring stand for principles during the movement for civil rights in Mississippi and the history behind the writing of his incisive analysis entitled Mississippi: The Closed Society in 1964
Strike Songs of the Depression
The Depression-era politics of strikers’ songs that called for solidarity and action
The Fugitive Race
Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness
A trailblazing study showing how for over a century minority authors have defied the dominance of white identity in American culture
The Press and Race
Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement
The fervent opinions and historic decisions of editorial writers in the turbulent 1950s and 1960s
The South and the Caribbean
The first comprehensive study of the close ties between the American South and the Caribbean
Beaches, Blood, and Ballots
A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle
The first book to focus on the integration of the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Film and Comic Books
Essays that explore how comic books inspire film and create new realms of visual art
Katrina
Mississippi Women Remember
Haunting, firsthand accounts and photographs from the aftermath of the hurricane
Stan Lee
Conversations
Interviews with the co-creator of The Amazing Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, and The Uncanny X-men