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.
Growing Up in Mississippi
An anthology describing the unique experience of childhood in the South’s most storied state
Mayor Crump Don't Like It
Machine Politics in Memphis
A biography of the southern politician who forged the first biracial Democratic coalition and then shattered it with his loyalty to segregation’s status quo
Ain't That a Knee-Slapper
Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century
A hee-hawing history of comedic performers from the golden age of radio through The Dukes of Hazzard
What Moves at the Margin
Selected Nonfiction
Thirty years of the Nobel Laureate’s reflections on life, writing, and other writers
Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors
A Young Reader's History
The full story of Louisiana’s French-speaking Cajun people written in a format comprehensible to junior high and high school students; also an appealing read for adults seeking a concise, one-volume exploration of this fascinating group of people
Whitewashing America
Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination
A study of how material goods and antebellum consumption defined whiteness
The Big Ballad Jamboree
A southern literary master’s captivating novel about the rise of a Nashville-bound singer as “hillbilly” evolves into “country”
A Web of Relationship
Women in the Short Fiction of Mary Wilkins Freeman
Insights into a rediscovered author’s revealing portraits of New England women
Southern Sun
A Plant Selection Guide
An expert’s advice on making the most of the many extremes in southern gardens
Southern Shade
A Plant Selection Guide
An expert’s advice on making the most of the many extremes in southern gardens
Confronting Modernity
Art and Society in Louisiana
An analysis of how modernity and modernism complicated local visions of art and society
Working with Walt
Interviews with Disney Artists
Conversations with top animators, designers, and voice actors who worked directly with film pioneer Walt Disney
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro
Nineteen interviews conducted over the past two decades on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond with the author of the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day
Black and White
Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South
An assessment of the cultural mix of slave and slave holder
Prophet Singer
The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie
An exploration of the history and intent behind the words of a great American folk singer
Comics as Philosophy
An inventive anthology that uses comics to explore the tenets of philosophy
Shreveport Sounds in Black and White
How players and promoters from one Louisiana locale created unforgettable music
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Interviews
Talks with the master director of such classics as All About Eve, The Barefoot Contessa, and Cleopatra
Francois Truffaut
Interviews
Interviews with the film critic and director who was a key figure in the French New Wave
Escape from Archangel
An American Merchant Seaman at War
A story of naval battles in fire and ice and a merchant seaman’s flight to freedom from Soviet captivity during World War II
Public Folklore
An indispensable volume and standard course reading on the representation of folklore
Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control
How Jamaica fashioned a tourist beacon from reggae music and the Rastafarian revolution
Faulkner
International Perspectives
Essays on William Faulkner’s work from foreign perspectives
Presbyterian Missionary Attitudes toward American Indians, 1837-1893
An indispensible look at the encounter between Native Americans and the Christianizing forces of missionary teachers
Hawthorne's Narrative Strategies
A study of a literary master’s manipulation of readers through use of ingenious narrative devices
Groucho and W. C. Fields
Huckster Comedians
A wonderful tribute to Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields and the art of flimflam comedy
American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930
Drawn from Native American autobiographical accounts, a study revealing white society’s program of civilizing American Indian schoolchildren
Still Following Percy
A collection of interrelated essays on Walker Percy by one of Percy’s most perceptive and sensitive critics
Faulkner and the Ecology of the South
Essays that explore Faulkner’s relationship to land, people, and the environment
Shiloh and Corinth
Sentinels of Stone
Photographs that capture the landscapes and monuments of two Civil War battlefields
The Kennedy Assassination
An overview of the many American perspectives in the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination
Roots of a Region
Southern Folk Culture
An exploration of the integral role of folk traditions in southern life
Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats along the Way
The Paintings of John Baeder
A retrospective of a masterful artist’s passion for an American roadside icon
The Hardest Deal of All
The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980
Haunted Halls
Ghostlore of American College Campuses
The first in-depth study of ghost stories from the haunts of academia
Must See Mississippi
50 Favorite Places
A journey to the state’s most intriguing spots
The Language of Comics
Word and Image
A diverse study of how words and pictures interact in comics to make messages
Inherit the Land
Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will
The history of a legal fight in which an all-white jury awarded African Americans a North Carolina estate
Art Spiegelman
Conversations
Interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of Maus: A Survivor’s Tale