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.

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Succeeding against Great Odds

Alcorn State University in Its Second Century

University Press of Mississippi

The recent history of a thriving Mississippi educational institution

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Steelpan Ambassadors

The US Navy Steel Band, 1957–1999

University Press of Mississippi

The lost, melodious history of a Cold War drumbeat that harmonized Caribbean steel with the best of America

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Sombreros and Motorcycles in a Newer South

The Politics of Aesthetics in South Carolina's Tourism Industry

University Press of Mississippi

How South of the Border and Atlantic Beach reflect cultural shifts in a more inclusive South

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On Sunset Boulevard

The Life and Times of Billy Wilder

University Press of Mississippi

With a new epilogue, the definitive biography of one of the world’s greatest filmmakers

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Swamp Rat

The Story of Dixie's Nutria Invasion

University Press of Mississippi

The complicated story of the unstoppable expansion of nutria in America’s southern wetlands

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Living in Mississippi

The Life and Times of Evans Harrington

University Press of Mississippi

The biography of a scholar, an author, an advocate for racial advancement, and a liberal who stayed in Mississippi

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East Meets Black

Asian and Black Masculinities in the Post-Civil Rights Era

University Press of Mississippi

An interrogation of the harmful, binary stereotypes leveled against Black and Asian men

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A Literary History of Mississippi

Edited by Lorie Watkins
University Press of Mississippi

The first comprehensive history of literature from a state with perhaps the nation’s richest literary lode

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The Mississippi Encyclopedia

University Press of Mississippi

An A-to-Z compendium of people, places, and events in Mississippi from prehistoric times to today

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The House That Sugarcane Built

The Louisiana Burguières

University Press of Mississippi

The multigenerational history of one of Louisiana's oldest dynasties and its empire of sugar and land

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Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara

Edited by Thabiti Lewis
University Press of Mississippi

Conversations with the author of the acclaimed works Gorilla, My Love; The Salt Eaters; and Those Bones Are Not My Child

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Boom's Blues

Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime

By Wim Verbei; Translated by Scott Rollins
University Press of Mississippi

A recovery of the first book-length study of the blues and the story behind the extraordinary Dutchman who wrote it under Nazi occupation

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Geographies of Cubanidad

Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba

University Press of Mississippi

A study of how notions of place and race inform the identities and performances of musicians in contemporary Cuba

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Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna

A Children's Classic at 100

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough examination of the context and impact of the irrepressibly optimistic literary darling

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Beyond Windrush

Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A challenge to the primacy of the Windrush generation as the sole founders of Caribbean literature

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