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.
The Jumbies' Playing Ground
Old World Influences on Afro-Creole Masquerades in the Eastern Caribbean
A study of the carnival traditions that created “whole theater” folk pageants
Mario Lanza
Singing to the Gods
A biography of the Italian American tenor, star of The Great Caruso and inspiration to the Three Tenors
Desegregating Desire
Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature
An exploration of writers who examine integration through the charged lens of sexuality
Black Diva of the Thirties
The Life of Ruby Elzy
The biography of a black operatic soprano who died too soon
Werner Herzog
Interviews
Interviews with the director of Signs of Life; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Grizzly Man; and Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Eric Rohmer
Interviews
Interviews with the director of Ma Nuit chez Maud
Agnes Varda
Interviews
Collected interviews with the French filmmaker who is sometimes called the "Mother of the New Wave"
The Architecture of William Nichols
Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi
A restoration of the legacy of one of the South’s most prolific and influential architects before the Civil War
To Do This, You Must Know How
Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
A landmark study tracing the current of music education that gave form and style to the black gospel quartet tradition
The State of Health and Health Care in Mississippi
A comprehensive survey of the health care crisis in one of the nation’s poorest states
Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance
A compelling history of the director’s films of war and resistance
Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement
Compelling accounts from early champions of Louisiana’s struggle to save natural resources
West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities
An Ethnomusicological Perspective
The first ethnomusicological study of the people who created a transnational connection in and through a world music culture
The Souls of White Folk
African American Writers Theorize Whiteness
The first book to examine whiteness as an intellectual tradition within African American literature