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.
Succeeding against Great Odds
Alcorn State University in Its Second Century
The recent history of a thriving Mississippi educational institution
Steelpan Ambassadors
The US Navy Steel Band, 1957–1999
The lost, melodious history of a Cold War drumbeat that harmonized Caribbean steel with the best of America
Sombreros and Motorcycles in a Newer South
The Politics of Aesthetics in South Carolina's Tourism Industry
How South of the Border and Atlantic Beach reflect cultural shifts in a more inclusive South
On Sunset Boulevard
The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
With a new epilogue, the definitive biography of one of the world’s greatest filmmakers
Swamp Rat
The Story of Dixie's Nutria Invasion
The complicated story of the unstoppable expansion of nutria in America’s southern wetlands
Living in Mississippi
The Life and Times of Evans Harrington
The biography of a scholar, an author, an advocate for racial advancement, and a liberal who stayed in Mississippi
East Meets Black
Asian and Black Masculinities in the Post-Civil Rights Era
An interrogation of the harmful, binary stereotypes leveled against Black and Asian men
A Literary History of Mississippi
The first comprehensive history of literature from a state with perhaps the nation’s richest literary lode
The Mississippi Encyclopedia
An A-to-Z compendium of people, places, and events in Mississippi from prehistoric times to today
The House That Sugarcane Built
The Louisiana Burguières
The multigenerational history of one of Louisiana's oldest dynasties and its empire of sugar and land
Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara
Conversations with the author of the acclaimed works Gorilla, My Love; The Salt Eaters; and Those Bones Are Not My Child
Boom's Blues
Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime
A recovery of the first book-length study of the blues and the story behind the extraordinary Dutchman who wrote it under Nazi occupation
Geographies of Cubanidad
Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba
A study of how notions of place and race inform the identities and performances of musicians in contemporary Cuba
Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna
A Children's Classic at 100
A thorough examination of the context and impact of the irrepressibly optimistic literary darling
Beyond Windrush
Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature
A challenge to the primacy of the Windrush generation as the sole founders of Caribbean literature