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.
French Quarter Manual
An Architectural Guide to New Orleans’s Vieux Carré
A handbook for discovering the architectural gems in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans
Crooked River City
The Musical Life of Nashville's William Pursell
A biography of one of Nashville’s most influential and unique musicians
Exploring Southeastern Archaeology
Cutting-edge scholarship about archaeology in the southeastern United States
Tearing the World Apart
Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century
Essays examining the Nobel laureate’s work in the new millennium
Look Who's Cooking
The Rhetoric of American Home Cooking Traditions in the Twenty-First Century
An exploration of home cooking in the twenty-first century
Full Court Press
Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball
How basketball loosened the grip of segregation and its proponents in the media
Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov
An enlightening volume that brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century’s master prose writers
Conversations with Robert Stone
Collected interviews with the contemporary American author of A Hall of Mirrors, Dog Soldiers, Damascas Gate, and other novels
Quentin Tarantino
Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction
The first in-depth study of metafiction in Tarantino’s films
The African American Sonnet
A Literary History
A thoughtful survey of striking poems from the Civil War to the present
The Racial Divide in American Medicine
Black Physicians and the Struggle for Justice in Health Care
An exposure to the long history of separation, isolation, disparities, and eventual healing in southern health care
David O. Russell
Interviews
Collected interviews with the American filmmaker whose work spans multiple genres and features radically differing aesthetic styles
Jazz in China
From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression
A monumental study of the history of jazz in China from its beginnings to today
Realizing Our Place
Real Southern Women in a Mythologized Land
An examination of the role myths of southern womanhood play in real women’s lives in the Mississippi Delta
The Yoruba God of Drumming
Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood That Talks
From scholars and practitioners, a collaborative collection about the power of the orisha of drumming
The Construction of Whiteness
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity
A critical engagement with the origins, power, and elusiveness of white privilege
Caribbean Masala
Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad
How Indian descendants maintained their culture and grew their influence in the Caribbean
A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years
A female perspective of sharecropping life
Gary Larson and The Far Side
The first critical assessment of an American icon’s lasting achievement