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.
Dis-Orienting Planets
Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction
A star map of the galactic voyage from Yellow Peril and techno-Orientalism to dazzling stories by and about Asians
Dancing with My Father
A daughter’s remembrance of life with the eccentric genius and artist Walter Anderson
Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation
An examination of how nineteenth-century African American folklore studies became a site of national debate
Bending Steel
Modernity and the American Superhero
How superheroes grappled with industrialism, modernism, and capitalism
Curatorial Conversations
Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Curators reflect on a half century of the nation’s public presentation of living cultural heritage
Retcon Game
Retroactive Continuity and the Hyperlinking of America
How comics introduced a sharp metaphor for America’s growing recognition of a mutable past
Fred Schepisi
Interviews
A master class on film direction in which Schepisi provides a goldmine of insights into his films, his filmmaking style, and what makes him tick as an artist
I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone
A passionate insider’s account from a major mover and shaker in the American music scene
Hazel Brannon Smith
The Female Crusading Scalawag
How one woman and her newspaper defied the white status quo and won a Pulitzer Prize
Beyond Control
The Mississippi River’s New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico
A detailed chronicle of how the wild Mississippi will eventually deliver a cataclysm
A Year in Mississippi
Glorious moments from all of Mississippi’s seasons in the Capital, the Delta, the Hill Country, the Piney Woods, and on the Coast
Vampires and Zombies
Transcultural Migrations and Transnational Interpretations
Essays that hunt down what happens when the undead go global
On the Graphic Novel
An essential history of the narrative art form’s global rise
Flight Risk
Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy
A rebellious native son attempts to escape the magnetic pull of New Orleans
Three Lives for Mississippi
The only complete, on-the-scene account of the heinous Freedom Summer murders in Mississippi
Asian Comics
The wide-ranging, authoritative story of thriving comics production and creativity in Asia
Freedom Rider Diary
Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison
One woman’s harrowing, unforgettable account from the nadir of Jim Crow Mississippi
The Artist's Sketch
A Biography of Painter Kate Freeman Clark
The unexpected story of a painter who flourished then withdrew and a small town’s discovery of a treasure
Negotiating Difference in French Louisiana Music
Categories, Stereotypes, and Identifications
How Louisiana musicians and audiences negotiate with difference and shape a common musical heritage
Right to Revolt
The Crusade for Racial Justice in Mississippi's Central Piney Woods
A revelation of the valorous nonviolent efforts wielded to motivate change in a “moderate” part of the segregated South