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.
Last Man Standing
Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy
The story of the comic who took the stage with nothing but a newspaper and gave America an entirely new way to laugh
Your Heritage Will Still Remain
Racial Identity and Mississippi's Lost Cause
How black and white Mississippians strove to define themselves and restrain each other
City of Islands
Caribbean Intellectuals in New York
How Caribbean thinkers have broadly influenced American culture and the quest for racial justice
The Writing Dead
Talking Terror with TV'S Top Horror Writers
Conversations with the creators, executive producers, and writers of today’s top horror shows
Comfort Food
Meanings and Memories
The perfect collection for anyone seeking to understand the cultural importance of comfort food
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