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.
The Power of One
Sister Anne Brooks and the Tutwiler Clinic
The inspiring story of a doctor who empowered a community by providing health care in the Mississippi Delta
The Amazing Jimmi Mayes
Sideman to the Stars
The unforgettable life story of one amazing musician touring and playing with Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Reed, Marvin Gaye, and many more
Soul in Seoul
African American Popular Music and K-pop
How the global sensation of K-pop and Korean hip-hop draw on and expand R&B traditions
Mississippi Poets
A Literary Guide
A thorough examination of the powerful poets from a mighty literary state
Jonas Mekas
Interviews
Collected interviews with the director of avant-garde films such as Walden (Diaries, Notes, and Sketches); Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania; and As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
John Jennings
Conversations
Collected interviews with the graphic designer and comic book scholar who is best known for his collaboration with Damian Duffy on the New York Times bestseller and Eisner Award–winning graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred
Hollywood Hates Hitler!
Jew-Baiting, Anti-Nazism, and the Senate Investigation into Warmongering in Motion Pictures
The first book-length study of the investigation into Hollywood’s anti-Nazi films
Haunted Property
Slavery and the Gothic
A critical examination of the role of property in gothic literature depicting slavery
Critical Directions in Comics Studies
An examination of the cutting-edge critical engagement in the field of modern comics studies
Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Collected interviews with the widely acclaimed African writer and outspoken intellectual who is known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, and essays on feminism
Can’t Be Faded
Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game
A collaborative blast of history and inspiration from top-of-the-line musicians
José Ferrer
Success and Survival
The first major biography of the Puerto Rican director and Tony- and Oscar-winning actor
In Faulkner's Shadow
A Memoir
An amusing, honest, and sympathetic account of literary rivalries and family feuds in Faulkner’s hometown
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country
The Benton County Civil Rights Movement
An in-depth oral and hyperlocal history of a rural county and its fight for civil rights
Troubling Masculinities
Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11
A challenge to claims about the popular project of masculine redemption in recent genre films
Taking Flight
Caribbean Women Writing from Abroad
A groundbreaking exploration of the impact of trauma based on gender, sexuality, and race across the Anglophone Caribbean
New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child
Race, Culture, and History
The first scholarly collection to examine Morrison’s most recent work of fiction, God Help the Child
Conversations with Joanna Scott
Collected interviews with a critically acclaimed and award-winning writer who is known for her jolting and illuminating fiction
Comic Art in Museums
A comprehensive history of how comics and comic art gained recognition as art
Clothing and Fashion in Southern History
The first volume to closely study the history of clothing and its relationship to work, power, and identity in the South
A Sojourn in Paradise
Jack Robinson in 1950s New Orleans
A celebration of the New Orleans life and early career of famed fashion photographer Jack Robinson.
Table Lands
Food in Children's Literature
An exploration of the symbolic role food plays in children’s literature
Michael Haneke
Interviews
Collected interviews with the director of The Seventh Continent, Funny Games,Amour,and his most recent feature, Happy End
Graphic Indigeneity
Comics in the Americas and Australasia
How comics in the Americas and Oceania have misconstrued, transformed, and reconstructed Indigenous stories
Cooperatives in New Orleans
Collective Action and Urban Development
A potent history of a most vital contributor to urban growth in New Orleans
Conversations with Graham Swift
Collected interviews with the author of the Booker Prize–winning novel Last Orders and Waterland
Children's Books on the Big Screen
A critical volume dedicated to children’s film adaptation
Vintage Postcards from the African World
In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play
An extraordinary view of the bounty of Africa and its diaspora
Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet
Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi
An intimate portrait that shifts the narrative of what gay life looks like in the rural South
Stone Motel
Memoirs of a Cajun Boy
Dispatches from the childhood of a Louisiana son raised in a roadside motel.
The Short Stories of Frank Yerby
Gathered together for the first time, a collection of the little-known but groundbreaking African American writer
Rediscovering Frank Yerby
Critical Essays
The first book-length sounding of the major contributions of the first black American novelist to sell more than a million copies
Monstrous Women in Comics
A critical volume on the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture
Maroons and the Marooned
Runaways and Castaways in the Americas
A provocative juxtaposition of escaped slaves and the shipwrecked across the Americas
Conversations with John Banville
Collected interviews with the author of Long Lankin, Mrs. Osmond, and The Sea, the last of which won the Man Booker Prize
William Friedkin
Interviews
Collected interviews with the Academy Award–winning director of the critically and commercially successful films The French Connection and The Exorcist
Till Death Do Us Part
American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed
A comprehensive study of how burial customs highlight social status and class
The War on Poverty in Mississippi
From Massive Resistance to New Conservatism
How the war on poverty galvanized and transformed white defiance
The Life of Dick Haymes
No More Little White Lies
A biography of the superstar crooner, his rise, fall, and struggle for a second act
Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks
Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature
Amuch-needed intervention into the critical study of Chicanx and Latinx young adult literature
Beyond the Blockbusters
Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
A necessary expansion of the lens and landscape of young adult literature
With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy
Teaching, Learning, and Comics
An unparalleled gathering of top educators, comics artists, and writers advocating the vital utility of comics in the classroom
With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy
Teaching, Learning, and Comics
An unparalleled gathering of top educators, comics artists, and writers advocating the vital utility of comics in the classroom
Sweet Bitter Blues
Washington, DC's Homemade Blues
The first-ever account of the Washington, DC, blues scene
Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma
Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature
An extraordinary engagement with trauma and its witness across American literature
Ms. Marvel's America
No Normal
An in-depth exploration of the current Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan
Delta Epiphany
Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi
The story of Robert F. Kennedy’s consequential visit to the Mississippi Delta
American Antebellum Fiddling
The only book solely about antebellum American fiddling
Black Feelings
Race and Affect in the Long Sixties
How the black liberation movement confronted ideologies of progress and equality through emotional discourse
The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer’s life