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.
Crossing Bar Lines
The Politics and Practices of Black Musical Space
A sounding of positions and space in the brilliant work of African American improvisers
Conversations with John Berryman
All of Berryman’s major interviews, personality pieces, profiles, and local interest items
I AM A MAN
Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970
Unforgettable photographs from flash points of the civil rights struggle
Bohemian New Orleans
The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press
The history of a small but mighty publisher in the vanguard of the small press revolution
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev, Volume III
The long-awaited final volume of the series dedicated to collecting tales from the Russian Grimm
Mysterious Travelers
Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity
How a creator transformed the hero and forever forged a brooding bond between philosophy and comics
Improvising Sabor
Cuban Dance Music in New York
The first thorough exploration of the innovative, flute-driven Cuban dance music of New York, charanga
The Sacred Language of the Abakuá
The first English-language translation and extensive notation of a seminal work from the African diaspora
Racial Terrorism
A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching
How the Equal Justice Initiative, the Legacy Museum, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice confront racial violence in America