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.
Asghar Farhadi
Interviews
Collected interviews with the celebrated international filmmaker of A Hero, A Separation, and Dancing in the Dust, who became Iran’s most prominent director and one of the great dramatist filmmakers of his generation
Emma's Postcard Album
Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century
A microhistory of the African American experience in early twentieth-century America through the correspondence of one young woman
Reproducing Domination
On the Caribbean Postcolonial State
A comprehensive collection of essays from a renowned postcolonial scholar
Rags and Bones
An Exploration of The Band
The first scholarly study of one of the most renowned groups in the history of rock ’n’ roll
Our Portion of Hell
Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights
A powerful documentary account of the struggle for voting rights in a southern community
Literacy in a Long Blues Note
Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
An analysis of the literary strategies wielded by Black women during the oppressive Jim Crow years
Jazz à la Creole
French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz
The first scholarly volume dedicated to French Creole music and its contribution to the development of jazz in New Orleans
Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale
Hard-to-find interviews with the ten-time Bram Stoker Award-winning writer of the Hap and Leonard short stories, Bubba Ho-Tep, and episodes of Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series
Containing Childhood
Space and Identity in Children’s Literature
A critical exploration of space in children’s literature and how those spaces affect child characters and readers
Authenticating Whiteness
Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars
A critical examination of authenticity as a strategy of whiteness in popular media