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.
Though There Be Giants
The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels
A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels
Black Girls Om Too
Yoga, Embodied Resistance, and Healing
How Black women practicing yoga create spaces that allow for bodies and experiences to be centered and celebrated
Insurgent Beauty
Indigenous Art in Urban Panama
How Indigenous artists in Panama utilized urban art forms to assert their cultural presence and political agency
Too Fast, Too Short
The Life of Diana Barrymore
A stunning sketch of the life and career of the little-known American actress and socialite
To Absent Friends
Eudora Welty's Correspondence with Frank Lyell
A thoughtful compilation that chronicles a nearly fifty-year friendship with the renowned Mississippi writer
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative
A Vision for Twenty-First-Century Science
A thorough assessment of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative and the scientific legacy it left behind
Steve McQueen
Interviews
The first collection of conversations with the acclaimed filmmaker, and one that spans his career to date
Conversations with Kiese Laymon
An in-depth look at author Kiese Laymon as an educator, creative writer, activist, family member, and Mississippian
Conversations with Jesmyn Ward
Collected interviews with the recipient of numerous major literary awards and fellowships, including two National Book Awards, for Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing
Comics and Catharsis
Exploring Graphic Narratives of Trauma and Healing
An exploration of why comics are so good at confronting the bad
Worth a Thousand Words
Cultural, Literary, and Political Proverb Studies
An important and extensive addition to contemporary proverb studies
Song of the Land
Celebrating the Works of Mildred D. Taylor
A thorough and much-needed volume of scholarship devoted to a trailblazing author of African American children’s literature
Regenerating the Feminine
Psyche, Culture, and Nature
An exciting study that aims to trace the resurgence of the feminine archetype in literature and film
Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877
A comprehensive history of Mississippians struggling to define freedom after the Civil War
Mississippi, Conflict and Change
A New Edition
A new edition of a classic book telling the history of all of Mississippi’s peoples
Child as Citizen
Agency and Activism in Children's Literature and Culture
How youth negotiate agency, activism, identity, and geopolitics to claim citizenship
Absence of National Feeling
Education Debates in the Reconstruction Congress
An astute study of how educational arguments evolved over twelve tumultuous years in American history
Stand the Storm
Spiritual Quartet Singing in the Struggle for Black Education
An invaluable history of spiritual singing groups and how their tours helped build historically Black colleges and universities in the South
Firefly in a Box
An Anthology of Soviet Kid Lit
An in-depth exploration of popular Russian-language Soviet children’s texts and illustrations
Conversations with Rick Veitch
A wealth of insight not only into the development of Veitch’s graphic innovations and metaphysical explorations, but also into the upheavals and transformations of American comics from the 1970s to today
Comics of the Anthropocene
Graphic Narrative at the End of Nature
The first full-length monograph to explore how US comics artists have depicted environmental destruction, mass extinctions, and climate change
Borrowed Land, Stolen Labor, and the Holy Spirit
The Struggle for Power and Equality in Holmes County, Mississippi
An in-depth microhistory highlighting how African American farmers and religious institutions played crucial roles in the struggle for land, voting rights, and school desegregation
Bluegrass Gospel
The Music Ministry of Jerry and Tammy Sullivan
A personal exploration of the lives and music of the father-daughter duo as they spread their mission and music across the South
Potter Stinks
Gender and Species in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
Compelling analysis of the wizardly literary phenomenon through the lens of contemporary gender and identity discourse
Mutants, Androids, and Aliens
On Being Human in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
How ordinary human characters interact with more-than-human beings in the MCU
Conjuring the Haint
The Haunting Poetics of Black Women
The first critical study of the interlocking relationship between haunting, Black women’s lives, and poetry
Choctaw Traditions
Stories of the Life and Customs of the Mississippi Choctaw
A valuable collection of stories that honor the customs and traditions of everyday life in Choctaw communities
Choctaw Tales
Stories from the Firekeepers
A revised and updated treasury of tribal lore told by past and present Choctaw storytellers
Singing through Struggle
Music, Worship, and Identity in Postemancipation Black Churches
A critical examination of the power of sacred song in nineteenth-century African American life