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.
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
Visions of Invasion
Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies
An exploration of the ways migrants are coded as alien in popular film and public discourse
The Struggle of Struggles
A new edition of an autobiography that chronicles the everyday conflicts, losses, and triumphs of the civil rights struggle
The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
The Press, the Platform, and the Pulpit
An essential reader of the powerful orations of an African American religious leader
Howard Cruse
A career-spanning biography of a central and significant figure in queer comics
Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos
New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts
A critical reexamination of the Peanuts gang we all know and love
Artful Breakdowns
The Comics of Art Spiegelman
The definitive critical appraisal of the great comics artist’s six-decade career as a pioneer, curator, and theorist
Old Southwest to Old South
Mississippi, 1798-1840
The first chronicle of Mississippi’s tumultuous coming-of-age
Becoming Ezra Jack Keats
The first in-depth biography of one of the most influential authors of children’s literature
The Welcome
A new edition of the important, long out-of-print novel
Sofia Coppola
Interviews
A collection of interviews with the American filmmaker and actress known for The Virgin Suicides,Lost in Translation, and On the Rocks
Into the Jungle!
A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II
An exploration of the experiences of war through the comics of an American youth
Conversations with Terrence McNally
Interviews with the Tony Award-winning librettist of Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime and collaborator on the opera Dead Man Walking
Carnival in Alabama
Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile
A lively and exciting analysis of one of the United States’ oldest Mardi Gras celebrations
Boy and Girl Tramps of America
A thorough and honest picture of Depression-era young people forced to ride the rails
Asian Political Cartoons
A comprehensive and heavily illustrated exploration of Asian political cartooning
Tide Lines
A Photographic Record of Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast
Stunning aerial photos that reveal Louisiana’s vanishing landscape
They Also Write for Kids
Cross-Writing, Activism, and Children's Literature
A compelling study of activist cross-writing by authors better known for their work “for adults”
Rethinking Racial Uplift
Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era
A reconsideration of Black unity, racial uplift, and the role of the Talented Tenth
Eudora Welty and Mystery
Hidden in Plain Sight
Intriguing essays on Welty’s literary play with a beloved popular genre
Do You Remember?
Celebrating Fifty Years of Earth, Wind & Fire
The first serious study of one of America’s favorite bands
Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson
Interviews with the queer Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor known for her novels Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon's Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine
Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media
An essential study on portrayals of D/deaf experiences in children’s literature and popular culture
Asghar Farhadi
Interviews
Collected interviews with the celebrated international filmmaker of A Hero, A Separation, and Dancing in the Dust, who became Iran’s most prominent director and one of the great dramatist filmmakers of his generation
Emma's Postcard Album
Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century
A microhistory of the African American experience in early twentieth-century America through the correspondence of one young woman
Reproducing Domination
On the Caribbean Postcolonial State
A comprehensive collection of essays from a renowned postcolonial scholar
Rags and Bones
An Exploration of The Band
The first scholarly study of one of the most renowned groups in the history of rock ’n’ roll
Our Portion of Hell
Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights
A powerful documentary account of the struggle for voting rights in a southern community
Literacy in a Long Blues Note
Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
An analysis of the literary strategies wielded by Black women during the oppressive Jim Crow years
Jazz à la Creole
French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz
The first scholarly volume dedicated to French Creole music and its contribution to the development of jazz in New Orleans
Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale
Hard-to-find interviews with the ten-time Bram Stoker Award-winning writer of the Hap and Leonard short stories, Bubba Ho-Tep, and episodes of Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series
Containing Childhood
Space and Identity in Children’s Literature
A critical exploration of space in children’s literature and how those spaces affect child characters and readers
Authenticating Whiteness
Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars
A critical examination of authenticity as a strategy of whiteness in popular media
Creole Soul
Zydeco Lives
A vividly photographed journey through the world of zydeco music
Going Up the Country
Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s
A fascinating collaboration from two scholars working in the South during a crucial point in blues history
Heritage and Hoop Skirts
How Natchez Created the Old South
How Depression-era women rallied for preservation and manufactured a lasting tourism mythos
To the Ramparts of Infinity
Colonel W. C. Falkner and the Ripley Railroad
An in-depth exploration of the life and works of the man who would one day serve as a model and influence to his great-grandson, William Faulkner
Smoker beyond the Sea
The Story of Puerto Rican Tobacco
The first narrative to weave together the many threads of tobacco history in Puerto Rico
Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling
Intensification and the Rich Modern Lives of Traditional Arts
A groundbreaking analysis that focuses on how current, widely enjoyed expressive culture retains its traditionality while recruiting new fans
After Midnight
Watchmen after Watchmen
The first scholarly exploration of three important Watchmen adaptations