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.
Sowing the Wind
The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890
How a radical constitution blocked racial progress and upended the class system
A Charlie Brown Religion
Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz
The first spiritual biography of a misunderstood believer, the renowned creator of Peanuts
Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans
Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900
The history of the challenges faced by women of all races in the Crescent City
Telling Our Stories
Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
The definitive guide to two state-of-the-art museums—the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, which opened in December 2017, in celebration of the state’s bicentennial
New Orleans Remix
How New Orleans musicians perpetually renew a grand musical tradition from classical to jazz, funk, and beyond
High Cotton
Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta
A paean to the vanishing family cotton farm
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev
Volume I
The first volume of a comprehensive gathering of tales from the Russian Grimm
The Comics of Joe Sacco
Journalism in a Visual World
The first book-length study of the acclaimed artist who brought journalistic reportage to comics
Prefiguring Postblackness
Cultural Memory, Drama, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s
An examination of five visionary stage plays written and performed during the throes of the movement that shook America
Diagnosing Folklore
Perspectives on Disability, Health, and Trauma
How the collision of folk understandings with medical definitions affect disability and stigma
Dancing on the Color Line
African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
A vivid canvas of how the black trickster affected the white canon
George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling
A study of the seminal nineteenth-century fiddle tune collection and its lasting impact
Fragile Grounds
Louisiana's Endangered Cemeteries
A visual treasury of disappearing cemeteries and a call to preserve and document them
Behold the Proverbs of a People
Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics
The preeminent scholar of proverbs addresses the immense cultural impact of proverbs worldwide
A Season of Night
New Orleans Life after Katrina
An account of life post-Katrina and a paean to shaken, but ever-alluring, New Orleans
The Limits of Loyalty
Ordinary People in Civil War Mississippi
A reinterpretation of how ordinary citizens navigated life during wartime
European Empires in the American South
Colonial and Environmental Encounters
Case studies of Spanish, British, and French imperial ambitions
Conversations with Edmund White
Over thirty years of interviews with the award-winning author and scholar known for chronicling gay culture
Godfather of the Music Business
Morris Levy
The incredible story of the cofounder of Birdland, a force in jazz and pop, and one of music’s last great hustlers
Emmett Till
The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
A gripping reexamination of the abduction and murder that galvanized the civil rights movement
Chris Ware
Conversations
Displaying both Ware’s erudition and his quirky self-deprecation, these collected interviews span his career from 1993 to 2015, creating a time-lapse portrait of the artist as he matures.
Prison Power
How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation
How iconic autobiographies found incarceration pivotal to the transition between civil rights and Black Power
Mississippi Writers
An Anthology
An omnibus of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama written by Mississippi authors
The Measure of Our Days
Writings of William F. Winter
Speeches from one of Mississippi’s best known and most progressive public servants
Quincy Jones
His Life in Music
A biography of one of the most influential creators and talents of the twentieth century
Lines Were Drawn
Remembering Court-Ordered Integration at a Mississippi High School
Oral histories gathered by three graduates of a major high school in Jackson, Mississippi
Anywhere But Here
Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond
Recent scholarship that expands the boundaries of Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic
Mississippi Black Paper
Shocking testimonials of the brutality committed against those fighting for freedom
Between Generations
Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children's Literature
How children and adults collaborated to create some of the most beloved works in literature
Shifting Interludes
Selected Essays
Covering the span of his forty-year career, a collection of eloquent essays by one of the South’s favorite writers
Seminole Burning
A Story of Racial Vengeance
The true story of mob vengeance on two innocent Native American teenagers in Oklahoma
Resisting Paradise
Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture
How Caribbean artists and activists counteract the apparently irresistible lure of the tourist dollar
DuBose Heyward
A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess
A biography of the proper Charlestonian who wrote of the Gullahs of Catfish Row and inspired a Gershwin masterpiece
Baz Luhrmann
Interviews
Interviews with the director of William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, Australia, and The Great Gatsby
Live from the Mississippi Delta
Spectacular photographs of musicians in the cradle of the blues
Comics Art in China
The definitive book about cartoons, picture books, comics, and animation in mainland China
Conversations with Colum McCann
Collected interviews with the world-renowned fiction author of Fishing the Sloe-Black River, Let the Great World Spin, and TransAtlantic
Sanctuaries of Segregation
The Story of the Jackson Church Visit Campaign
How motivated Christians confronted the hypocrisy that separated races on the Sabbath
Faulkner's Inheritance
Examinations of the many influences on Faulkner’s fiction
Faulkner's Geographies
Essays that study mobility, place, and spatial imagination in the Nobel laureate’s work
Succeeding against Great Odds
Alcorn State University in Its Second Century
The recent history of a thriving Mississippi educational institution
Steelpan Ambassadors
The US Navy Steel Band, 1957–1999
The lost, melodious history of a Cold War drumbeat that harmonized Caribbean steel with the best of America
Sombreros and Motorcycles in a Newer South
The Politics of Aesthetics in South Carolina's Tourism Industry
How South of the Border and Atlantic Beach reflect cultural shifts in a more inclusive South
On Sunset Boulevard
The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
With a new epilogue, the definitive biography of one of the world’s greatest filmmakers
Swamp Rat
The Story of Dixie's Nutria Invasion
The complicated story of the unstoppable expansion of nutria in America’s southern wetlands
Living in Mississippi
The Life and Times of Evans Harrington
The biography of a scholar, an author, an advocate for racial advancement, and a liberal who stayed in Mississippi
East Meets Black
Asian and Black Masculinities in the Post-Civil Rights Era
An interrogation of the harmful, binary stereotypes leveled against Black and Asian men
A Literary History of Mississippi
The first comprehensive history of literature from a state with perhaps the nation’s richest literary lode
The Mississippi Encyclopedia
An A-to-Z compendium of people, places, and events in Mississippi from prehistoric times to today
The House That Sugarcane Built
The Louisiana Burguières
The multigenerational history of one of Louisiana's oldest dynasties and its empire of sugar and land