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 Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath
Collected for the first time, an exploration of the artwork and commentary of a forgotten activist during the civil rights movement
Persistence through Peril
Episodes of College Life and Academic Endurance in the Civil War South
How eleven institutions remained open and maintained the mission of higher education during a national cataclysm
Fiddle Tunes from Mississippi
Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920-2018
270 musical examples plus biographies and photographs completing a vibrant picture of Mississippi’s fiddle tradition
Conversations with Sam Shepard
Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, director, author, and actor known for creating the Family Trilogy of plays and appearing in many films like The Right Stuff, Fool for Love, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou
Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites
A unique historical examination of Haitian Vodou’s political and religious origins
The Mama Chronicles
A Memoir
A beautifully written memoir of a Mississippi woman learning to reconnect with her aging mother
Mississippi Barking
Hurricane Katrina and a Life That Went to the Dogs
An emotional recounting of animal rescue during the aftermath of one of the nation’s worst storms
Whiskey, Women, and War
How the Great War Shaped Jim Crow New Orleans
An exciting and surprising history of the New Orleans home front during World War I
What the Children Said
Child Lore of South Louisiana
A deep exploration of children’s play and its impact on learning race, history, and sexuality
Rulers of the SEC
Ole Miss and Mississippi State, 1959-1966
How two Mississippi universities won twelve of twenty-four championships to dominate sports and reign supreme in the SEC
Marginalized
Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender
A close analysis of southern women playwrights
Instruments of Empire
Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines
How a Philippine military band and their Black conductor dazzled America while soothing its racial anxieties
Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana
Never before in English, a travel-adventure novel of two young women navigating antebellum Louisiana
The Comics World
Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics
A thoroughly researched collection designed to engage with the social sciences in order to expand comics studies as a field
Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname
Available in English for the first time, the integral and only book on all the music of a most diverse nation
Robert Kirkman
Conversations
Collected interviews with the comics fan-turned-creator best known for The Walking Dead andInvincible
Rebirth of the English Comic Strip
A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870
A master scholar’s thorough study of the neglected but vital age in which the term “cartoon” was coined
One Grand Noise
Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World
The first comprehensive study of how Boxing Day is celebrated across the Caribbean
New York City Blues
Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond
A lively and detailed exploration of the history of the blues from the 1940s to the 1990s in the City That Never Sleeps
In Search of Ancient Kings
Egúngún in Brazil
A firsthand account of the secretive Egúngún society from a scholar who would become a priest in the religion
Conversations with Angela Davis
Collected interviews with an influential educator, scholar, and activist, who is one of the most recognizable and iconic figures of the twentieth century
Alain Resnais
Interviews
A collection of twenty-one interviews with the French filmmaker of award-winning documentaries like Van Gogh and Night and Fog and groundbreaking dramas like Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad, and Muriel
Toni Morrison and the Natural World
An Ecology of Color
The first ecocritical treatment of the entire range of the Nobel Laureate’s mighty works
Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Art
The Ascendency of Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and Edmonia Lewis
The extraordinary struggle, achievement, loss and reclamation of three brilliant African American artists of the 1800s
Positioning Pooh
Edward Bear after One Hundred Years
A delightful journey into the heart of the many meanings behind that silly old bear
Politics in the Gutters
American Politicians and Elections in Comic Book Media
A thorough exploration of the political critiques found in a multigenre, historical cross-section of comic books and their transmedia adaptations
My Melancholy Baby
The First Ballads of the Great American Songbook, 1902-1913
A thorough exploration of early pop ballads in the American Songbook and how they still resonate
Conversations with Steve Erickson
A collection of twenty-four interviews with a singular writer whose work is a dream-fueled blend of European modernism, American pulp, and paranoid late-century postmodernism
At Arm’s Length
A Rhetoric of Character in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
A theory of how authors position readers in relation to literary character through empathy, awe, and indifference
The Mississippi Gulf Coast Seafood Industry
A People's History
The first complete history of Mississippi’s seafood industry and those who harvested and processed this coastal bounty
Slave Revolt on Screen
The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games
A trailblazing book on the depiction of the Haitian Revolution in film and video games
Rough Tactics
Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932
A probing of the earliest Black efforts to overcome disfranchisement popular politics in the Jim Crow South
Redefining Liberal Arts Education in the Twenty-First Century
A multidisciplined exploration of the importance and evolution of liberal arts
I Can Read It All by Myself
The Beginner Books Story
A first-of-its-kind history of Ted Geisel and the beloved children’s book series he created
Faulkner and Slavery
A long-awaited assessment of the Nobel laureate’s work in relation to America’s cosmic sin
Dougla in the Twenty-First Century
Adding to the Mix
A sounding of a vibrant multiracial identity often unknown outside the Caribbean
Tearing Down the Lost Cause
The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues
How New Orleans became a Confederate city after the war, and how citizens tore those symbols down
Chapel of Love
The Story of New Orleans Girl Group the Dixie Cups
A tale of three African American teenagers who conquered the music world
They Called Us River Rats
The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans
A celebration of those independent people who call the fringes of the mighty Mississippi home
The Comics of R. Crumb
Underground in the Art Museum
A scholarly exploration of the iconic comics artist
Rebirthing a Nation
White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet
A timely exploration of the role white women play in supporting systems of racism
Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction
A wrestling with the faults and possibilities of the portrayals of race in this powerful genre
Policing Intimacy
Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature
A study of interracial intimacy, multiracial identities, and the intersectional, interconnected nature of social relations
Lost in the Dark
A World History of Horror Film
A comprehensive and fun overview of moviegoers’ favorite genre
Black to Nature
Pastoral Return and African American Culture
Close readings of Black women reclaiming space within the power of nature
Flights from Fassberg
How a German Town Built for War Became a Beacon of Peace
A brilliant merging of personal experience and world-changing, historical significance in a hamlet that held the line against Russia
A de Grummond Primer
Highlights of the Children's Literature Collection
A lush introduction to the most extraordinary children’s literature archive in the world
Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers
New Voices, New Perspectives
A new anthology featuring contemporary and up-and-coming southern fiction writers
Side by Side
US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture
A groundbreaking study on the impact of Puerto Rican children’s literature and culture