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
Though Silent They Speak
Arkansas Gravestones and Graveyards
A captivating guidebook that explores diverse and unique burial grounds across Arkansas
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
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
Conversations with Lynn Johnston
Interviews with the revered creator of the long-running comic strip For Better or For Worse
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
The Tougaloo Nine
The Jackson Library Sit-In at the Crossroads of Civil War and Civil Rights
The stunning history of the first student-led, direct-action civil rights demonstration in the state of Mississippi
Driftin' on a Memory
Celebrating Seventy Years of the Isley Brothers
The first authoritative treatment of musicians who tallied platinum records and hit singles over six different decades
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
Conversations with Denis Kitchen
An in-depth exploration of the multifaceted career of one of the most influential figures in the world of comics
Concerto for Cootie
The Life and Times of Cootie Williams
The first full-length biography of a true giant of jazz
Beyond Zombie Politics
The Art of George A. Romero’s Cinema
Fresh takes on the films and legacy of one of horror’s most famous directors
A Black Woman for President
Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris
How three Black leaders used womanist rhetoric to announce their campaigns for president of the United States of America