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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Fear and What Follows

The Violent Education of a Christian Racist, A Memoir

University Press of Mississippi

The story of a working-class, Southern Baptist upbringing that transformed into a nightmare of bigotry and bullying in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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Conversations with Jay Parini

Edited by Michael Lackey
University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the author of The Last Station, Why Poetry Matters, Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America, and The Passages of H. M.: A Novel of Herman Melville

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Marilyn Monroe

A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated

University Press of Mississippi

The first biography to focus on the American icon’s acting craft

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Delta Dogs

By Maude Schuyler Clay; Introduction by Brad Watson
University Press of Mississippi

New photographs from the beloved creator of Delta Land

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Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century

University Press of Mississippi

A critical study of Fairbanks’s acting career and his brand as the ultimate American

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Joan Blondell

A Life between Takes

University Press of Mississippi

The first major biography of an actress with a long and lustrous career in film and television

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Faulkner and Formalism

Returns of the Text

University Press of Mississippi

Essays that explore current scholarship on the Nobel Laureate’s work

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Transatlantic Roots Music

Folk, Blues, and National Identities

Edited by Jill Terry and Neil A. Wynn
University Press of Mississippi

Essays that track identity and authenticity in blues and folk music that crossed the ocean

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The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming

Aesthetics, Transmission, Bonding, and Creativity

University Press of Mississippi

An investigation of one of the most sophisticated, intriguing, and elusive of the world’s drumming traditions

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Perspectives on Percival Everett

University Press of Mississippi

The first collection of essays to examine the breadth of Everett’s creative output

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Legend-Tripping Online

Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat

University Press of Mississippi

How the Internet crystallizes fringe theories into amazing realities

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Eudora Welty and Surrealism

University Press of Mississippi

A study of the profound influence of surrealism on the writer’s craft

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Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination

Innocence by Association

University Press of Mississippi

How the civil rights movement changed the careers of four white American writers as well as the literary establishment

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Building the Beloved Community

Philadelphia’s Interracial Civil Rights Organizations and Race Relations, 1930–1970

University Press of Mississippi

How a northern city with de facto segregation overcame prejudice and became a beacon for the rest of America

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A New History of Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

The first comprehensive history of the state in nearly four decades

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