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.
With Signs Following
Photographs from the Southern Religious Roadside
A drive-by testimony to southern evangelical wit and wisdom
Anne McCaffrey
A Life with Dragons
A biography of one of the first women to achieve international success writing science fiction
Ingmar Bergman
Interviews
Interviews with the famed director of Wild Strawberries, Scenes from a Marriage, The Seventh Seal, Saraband, and other films
Conversations with Wendell Berry
Conversations with Leon Forrest
Cinderella in America
A Book of Folk and Fairy Tales
The first-of-its kind anthology of folk and fairy tales from the United States
World War I and the Cultures of Modernity
A revisionist study that rejects the time-honored argument that the Great War was the cataclysmic break with the epoch that preceded it
Deadhouse
Life in a Coroner's Office
An inside look at a big city coroner’s office where investigators probe the mysteries of death
Stan Lee
Conversations
Interviews with the co-creator of The Amazing Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, and The Uncanny X-men
Film and Comic Books
Essays that explore how comic books inspire film and create new realms of visual art
Beaches, Blood, and Ballots
A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle
The first book to focus on the integration of the Mississippi Gulf Coast
The South and the Caribbean
The first comprehensive study of the close ties between the American South and the Caribbean
The Press and Race
Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement
The fervent opinions and historic decisions of editorial writers in the turbulent 1950s and 1960s
The Fugitive Race
Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness
A trailblazing study showing how for over a century minority authors have defied the dominance of white identity in American culture
Strike Songs of the Depression
The Depression-era politics of strikers’ songs that called for solidarity and action
Running Scared
Silver in Mississippi
The history of a university professor’s daring stand for principles during the movement for civil rights in Mississippi and the history behind the writing of his incisive analysis entitled Mississippi: The Closed Society in 1964
Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From
Lyrics and History
A vibrant and varied look at African American songs and the history behind the lyrics
Native American Place Names in Mississippi
A comprehensive guide to the translations and tribal origins of five hundred intriguing designations
Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars
A New Pandora's Box
A call to recognize Marxism’s underestimated influence on the course of African American letters
Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities
A close reading of international films that focus on diaspora and exile
Joseph E. Davis
Pioneer Patriarch
A closely observed view of the nineteenth-century South in a biography of the Confederate president’s elder brother
Gender and the Southern Body Politic
A re-examination of notable subjects in southern history through the unique lens of gender
Faulkner on the Color Line
The Later Novels
A study of William Faulkner’s final phase as a period in which he faced up to America’s rigid protocols of racial ideology
Faulkner and Race
Essays that focus on a theme central to understanding William Faulkner’s works and illuminate his various stances on race
Defining Travel
Diverse Visions
Connecting Times
The Sixties in Afro-American Fiction
A stimulating study of 1960s black literature that sees American history through the literary art that rose out of the painful conflicts of Black Power, Vietnam, and the Civil Rights Movement
C. L. R. James and Creolization
Circles of Influence
A study that unites James and the individual pieces of his work in the full perspective of his thought
Born in the U.S.A.
The Myths of America in Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present
The vision of America seen through the lyrics of its popular songs
Affect and Power
Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion in Appreciation of Winthrop D. Jordan
An anthology honoring the work of the influential historian Winthrop D. Jordan
Buster Keaton
Interviews
Interviews with one of the most iconic stars of Hollywood’s silent and early sound eras
Words into Images
Screenwriters on the Studio System
An unprecedented view of Hollywood’s Golden Age
Rodolphe Töpffer
The Complete Comic Strips
The first English-language edition of the premier comic artist’s work
Hands in the Till
Embezzlement of Public Monies in Mississippi
The Circle of Guilt
A famed psychiatrist’s view of race, mass media, and a rush to judgment in New York City
The Beatles
Image and the Media
A study of the forces that transformed four Liverpool musicians into icons for the 1960s
Father of the Comic Strip
Rodolphe Töpffer
A critical study of the Swiss artist who created the comic strip
Jimmie Rodgers
The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler
The definitive biography of the “Father of Country Music”