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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Fiddle Tunes from Mississippi

Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920-2018

University Press of Mississippi

270 musical examples plus biographies and photographs completing a vibrant picture of Mississippi’s fiddle tradition

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Conversations with Sam Shepard

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, director, author, and actor known for creating the Family Trilogy of plays and appearing in many films like The Right Stuff, Fool for Love, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou

Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites

University Press of Mississippi

A unique historical examination of Haitian Vodou’s political and religious origins

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The Mama Chronicles

A Memoir

University Press of Mississippi

A beautifully written memoir of a Mississippi woman learning to reconnect with her aging mother

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Mississippi Barking

Hurricane Katrina and a Life That Went to the Dogs

University Press of Mississippi

An emotional recounting of animal rescue during the aftermath of one of the nation’s worst storms

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Whiskey, Women, and War

How the Great War Shaped Jim Crow New Orleans

University Press of Mississippi

An exciting and surprising history of the New Orleans home front during World War I

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What the Children Said

Child Lore of South Louisiana

University Press of Mississippi

A deep exploration of children's play and its impact on learning race, history, and sexuality

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Rulers of the SEC

Ole Miss and Mississippi State, 1959-1966

University Press of Mississippi

How two Mississippi universities won twelve of twenty-four championships to dominate sports and reign supreme in the SEC

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Marginalized

Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender

University Press of Mississippi

A close analysis of southern women playwrights

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Instruments of Empire

Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines

University Press of Mississippi

How a Philippine military band and their Black conductor dazzled America while soothing its racial anxieties

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Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana

By Camille Lebrun; Translated with commentary by E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White
University Press of Mississippi

Never before in English, a travel-adventure novel of two young women navigating antebellum Louisiana

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The Comics World

Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics

University Press of Mississippi

A thoroughly researched collection designed to engage with the social sciences in order to expand comics studies as a field

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Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname

By Marcel Weltak; Translated by Scott Rollins
University Press of Mississippi

Available in English for the first time, the integral and only book on all the music of a most diverse nation

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Robert Kirkman

Conversations

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the comics fan-turned-creator best known for .

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Rebirth of the English Comic Strip

A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870

University Press of Mississippi

A master scholar’s thorough study of the neglected but vital age in which the term “cartoon” was coined

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One Grand Noise

Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World

University Press of Mississippi

The first comprehensive study of how Boxing Day is celebrated across the Caribbean

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New York City Blues

Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond

By Larry Simon; Edited by John Broven; Photographs by Robert Schaffer
University Press of Mississippi

A lively and detailed exploration of the history of the blues from the 1940s to the 1990s in the City That Never Sleeps

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In Search of Ancient Kings

Egúngún in Brazil

University Press of Mississippi

A firsthand account of the secretive Egúngún society from a scholar who would become a priest in the religion

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Conversations with Angela Davis

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with an influential educator, scholar, and activist, who is one of the most recognizable and iconic figures of the twentieth century

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Alain Resnais

Interviews

Edited by Lynn A. Higgins
University Press of Mississippi

A collection of twenty-one interviews with the French filmmaker of award-winning documentaries like ., Last Year at Marienbad, and Muriel

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Toni Morrison and the Natural World

An Ecology of Color

University Press of Mississippi

The first ecocritical treatment of the entire range of the Nobel Laureate's mighty works

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Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Art

The Ascendency of Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and Edmonia Lewis

University Press of Mississippi

The extraordinary struggle, achievement, loss and reclamation of three brilliant African American artists of the 1800s

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Positioning Pooh

Edward Bear after One Hundred Years

University Press of Mississippi

A delightful journey into the heart of the many meanings behind that silly old bear

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Politics in the Gutters

American Politicians and Elections in Comic Book Media

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough exploration of the political critiques found in a multigenre, historical cross-section of comic books and their transmedia adaptations

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My Melancholy Baby

The First Ballads of the Great American Songbook, 1902-1913

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough exploration of early pop ballads in the American Songbook and how they still resonate

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Conversations with Steve Erickson

University Press of Mississippi

A collection of twenty-four interviews with a singular writer whose work is a dream-fueled blend of European modernism, American pulp, and paranoid late-century postmodernism

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At Arm’s Length

A Rhetoric of Character in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A theory of how authors position readers in relation to literary character through empathy, awe, and indifference

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The Mississippi Gulf Coast Seafood Industry

A People's History

University Press of Mississippi

The first complete history of Mississippi’s seafood industry and those who harvested and processed this coastal bounty

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Slave Revolt on Screen

The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games

University Press of Mississippi

A trailblazing book on the depiction of the Haitian Revolution in film and video games

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Rough Tactics

Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932

University Press of Mississippi

A probing of the earliest Black efforts to overcome disfranchisement popular politics in the Jim Crow South

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Redefining Liberal Arts Education in the Twenty-First Century

University Press of Mississippi

A multidisciplined exploration of the importance and evolution of liberal arts

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I Can Read It All by Myself

The Beginner Books Story

University Press of Mississippi

A first-of-its-kind history of Ted Geisel and the beloved children's book series he created

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Faulkner and Slavery

University Press of Mississippi

A long-awaited assessment of the Nobel Laureate's work in relation to America's cosmic sin

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Dougla in the Twenty-First Century

Adding to the Mix

University Press of Mississippi

A sounding of a vibrant multiracial identity often unknown outside the Caribbean

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Tearing Down the Lost Cause

The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues

University Press of Mississippi

How New Orleans became a Confederate city after the war, and how citizens tore those symbols down

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Chapel of Love

The Story of New Orleans Girl Group the Dixie Cups

University Press of Mississippi

A tale of three African American teenagers who conquered the music world

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They Called Us River Rats

The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans

University Press of Mississippi

A celebration of those independent people who call the fringes of the mighty Mississippi home

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The Comics of R. Crumb

Underground in the Art Museum

Edited by Daniel Worden
University Press of Mississippi

A scholarly exploration of the iconic comics artist

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Rebirthing a Nation

White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet

University Press of Mississippi

A timely exploration of the role white women play in supporting systems of racism

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Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction

University Press of Mississippi

A wrestling with the faults and possibilities of the portrayals of race in this powerful genre

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Policing Intimacy

Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A study of interracial intimacy, multiracial identities, and the intersectional, interconnected nature of social relations

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Lost in the Dark

A World History of Horror Film

University Press of Mississippi

A comprehensive and fun overview of moviegoers’ favorite genre

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Black to Nature

Pastoral Return and African American Culture

University Press of Mississippi

Close readings of Black women reclaiming space within the power of nature

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Flights from Fassberg

How a German Town Built for War Became a Beacon of Peace

University Press of Mississippi

A brilliant merging of personal experience and world-changing, historical significance in a hamlet that held the line against Russia

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A de Grummond Primer

Highlights of the Children's Literature Collection

University Press of Mississippi

A lush introduction to the most extraordinary children’s literature archive in the world

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Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers

New Voices, New Perspectives

University Press of Mississippi

A new anthology featuring contemporary and up-and-coming southern fiction writers

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The Cards

The Evolution and Power of Tarot

University Press of Mississippi

A readable and extensive history of the development and evolution of Tarot and its place in culture

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Side by Side

US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture

University Press of Mississippi

A groundbreaking study on the impact of Puerto Rican children’s literature and culture

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Scattered Musics

University Press of Mississippi

A world tour of the expected yet unexpected transformations of music and musicians on the move

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Next Generation Adaptation

Spectatorship and Process

Edited by Allen H. Redmon
University Press of Mississippi

A critical look at some of the issues most central to adaptation studies

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