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.
Brian De Palma's Split-Screen
A Life in Film
A biographical approach to the films of a controversial and provocative director
Alexander Payne
Interviews
Interviews with the director of Citizen Ruth, Nebraska, and The Descendants
Superheroes on World Screens
Essays exploring the many ways in which superheroes no longer belong solely to America
Minority Relations
Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation
How minority groups negotiate thorny but critical public policy issues in America
Conversations with Stanley Kunitz
Interviews derived from four decades of this American poet’s distinguished career
Winnie Lightner
Tomboy of the Talkies
The biography of the spunky “Song a Minute Girl,” the first actress to have her spoken words censored
Peter Bagge
Conversations
Interviews with the creator of the comics series Hate and the former editor of the often outrageous Weirdo magazine
More than Cricket and Football
International Sport and the Challenge of Celebrity
A passport to the many nations, sports stars, and sports across the globe
Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism
A history of anticommunist rhetoric and its impact on the Black freedom struggle in America
American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment
How the United States government tried to define, displace, and control indigenous peoples while American Indians refused to surrender their voices
War Noir
Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction
A recognition of the intense role war trauma played in the great writer’s characters and legacy
Mississippi
The Long, Hot Summer
The original sociological encounter with the riven demographics of the closed society
Yodeling and Meaning in American Music
The first musicological and ideological examination of the rich yodeling tradition
Joe T. Patterson and the White South's Dilemma
Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement
How white resistance operated and adapted to the sweeping forces of racial change