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.
Though There Be Giants
The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels
A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels
Black Girls Om Too
Yoga, Embodied Resistance, and Healing
How Black women practicing yoga create spaces that allow for bodies and experiences to be centered and celebrated
The Folklore of Democracy
Tradition and Democratic Culture after January 6th
How cultural practices serve as both a foundation for democratic engagement and, at times, tools for division
Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots
Black History in Contemporary Graphic Narrative
A revelation of the powerful circuit between Black history and modern comics by African American creators
Speakeasies to Symphonies
The Jazz Genius of James P. Johnson
A riveting and thorough biography of the quiet man who made the 1920s roar
Southern Women, Southern Landscapes
Cultural Reflections on the Garden, 1870-1970
An examination of the lives, gardens, writing, and artwork of Southern women who found inspiration and identity in nature
Jazz Odyssey
The Global Lives of Booker T. Pittman
The first biography of an extraordinary figure of global jazz
Though Silent They Speak
Arkansas Gravestones and Graveyards
A captivating guidebook that explores diverse and unique burial grounds across Arkansas
Real and Imagined Worlds
Claude McKay’s Poetry and Prose
An exploration of the various literary and artistic influences of a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance
Mississippi Notebook
A new edition of the classic, unflinching account of Mississippi’s reckoning during Freedom Summer
Conversations with Lynn Johnston
Interviews with the revered creator of the long-running comic strip For Better or For Worse
Conversations with Ellen Gilchrist
Collected interviews with the National Book Award-winning author of Victory Over Japan and many other critically acclaimed works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry
Border War
A Yankee Family in Civil War Missouri
A chronicle of the harrowing experiences of one family surviving the perilous homefront of Missouri in the Civil War
Bombs Bursting in Air
Music and the State
Explorations of the harmonies and dissonance between music and the American polity