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.
Conversations with Edna O'Brien
Collected interviews covering over fifty years of this acclaimed and controversial Irish author’s career
He Slew the Dreamer
My Search for the Truth about James Earl Ray and the Murder of Martin Luther King
A legendary investigative journalist’s powerful reckoning of fact, fiction, and wild conspiracies about the great crusader’s murder
Greek Music in America
A long-overdue study that samples all the genres, sounds, and contributions of the Greek music diaspora
Crusaders, Gangsters, and Whiskey
Prohibition in Memphis
A lively, full history of Memphis during the Prohibition era
Delivered by Midwives
African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South
A history of African American childbirth experience and midwifery’s renewed value in combating health disparities
Steven Soderbergh
Interviews, Revised and Updated
Collected interviews with the film director of Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and Ocean’s Eleven
J. J. Abrams
Interviews
A career-spanning collection of interviews with the director behind Lost; Mission: Impossible III; Star Trek; and Star Wars: The Force Awakens
He Slew the Dreamer
My Search for the Truth about James Earl Ray and the Murder of Martin Luther King
A legendary investigative journalist’s powerful reckoning of fact, fiction, and wild conspiracies about the great crusader’s murder
Conversations with Gish Jen
Over two decades worth of interviews with an American author who skillfully addresses the merits and drawbacks of Eastern and Western cultures
Comics and Sacred Texts
Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives
How comics, graphic novels, and sacred texts work in concert to expand our sense of the holy
Rod Serling
His Life, Work, and Imagination
The definitive book on The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling
Blues Traveling
The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Fourth Edition
The updated fourth edition of the fundamental blues travel guide
Just Trying to Have School
The Struggle for Desegregation in Mississippi
A study of the history of desegregation in Mississippi schools
Creating the Jazz Solo
Louis Armstrong and Barbershop Harmony
A powerful statement on Armstrong’s pathway to creativity and his transformation of jazz
The Old Pro Turkey Hunter
A classic gem of wisdom and lore from a master sportsman
Alison Bechdel
Conversations
Collected interviews with the trailblazing creator of the graphic memoir Fun Home and the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo
The Forgotten History of America's Dutch-Owned Slaves
A recovery of the transformative significance of Pentecost celebrations and fraternal orders on African American identity
The Music of the Netherlands Antilles
Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart
An exploration of an overlooked Caribbean musical tradition and the European, African, and New World influences that created it
Desegregating Dixie
The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992
How a universal church adapted to and resisted powerful calls for transformation
Wong Kar-wai
Interviews
Collected interviews with the Hong Kong auteur covering every feature film he’s directed, from his debut, As Tears Go By, to his 2013 The Grandmaster
Gender and the Superhero Narrative
A timely, exciting look at the controversies and changes in the role of gender in comics
Carter G. Woodson
History, the Black Press, and Public Relations
A new recognition of how the Father of Black History harnessed publicity power
Occasions
Selected Writings
A treasury of hard-to-find stories, essays, tributes, and humor from a literary master
From Madea to Media Mogul
Theorizing Tyler Perry
Essays on the seemingly unstoppable writer, producer, director, actor, and entrepreneur Tyler Perry
Consuming Identity
The Role of Food in Redefining the South
How food serves as a rhetorical catalyst for discussion in a culture that loves to eat, share, and talk
Aaron Henry
The Fire Ever Burning
The memoir of a fearless black leader in the civil rights struggle in Mississippi
The Films of Mira Nair
Diaspora Verite
The first full-length study of the Indian American filmmaker’s extraordinary cinema
Conversations with Neil Gaiman
Collected interviews with the multi-talented and critically acclaimed writer behind the award-winning series, The Sandman andthe novels Neverwhere, Coraline, and American Gods
Books of the Dead
Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature
From The Walking Dead to World War Z, a serious study of the zombie in literature
The Mississippi Gulf Coast
A captivating photographic exploration of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast
French Quarter Manual
An Architectural Guide to New Orleans’s Vieux Carré
A handbook for discovering the architectural gems in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans
Crooked River City
The Musical Life of Nashville's William Pursell
A biography of one of Nashville’s most influential and unique musicians
Exploring Southeastern Archaeology
Cutting-edge scholarship about archaeology in the southeastern United States
Tearing the World Apart
Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century
Essays examining the Nobel laureate’s work in the new millennium
Look Who's Cooking
The Rhetoric of American Home Cooking Traditions in the Twenty-First Century
An exploration of home cooking in the twenty-first century
Full Court Press
Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball
How basketball loosened the grip of segregation and its proponents in the media
Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov
An enlightening volume that brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century’s master prose writers
Conversations with Robert Stone
Collected interviews with the contemporary American author of A Hall of Mirrors, Dog Soldiers, Damascas Gate, and other novels
Quentin Tarantino
Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction
The first in-depth study of metafiction in Tarantino’s films
The African American Sonnet
A Literary History
A thoughtful survey of striking poems from the Civil War to the present
The Racial Divide in American Medicine
Black Physicians and the Struggle for Justice in Health Care
An exposure to the long history of separation, isolation, disparities, and eventual healing in southern health care
David O. Russell
Interviews
Collected interviews with the American filmmaker whose work spans multiple genres and features radically differing aesthetic styles
Jazz in China
From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression
A monumental study of the history of jazz in China from its beginnings to today
Realizing Our Place
Real Southern Women in a Mythologized Land
An examination of the role myths of southern womanhood play in real women’s lives in the Mississippi Delta
The Yoruba God of Drumming
Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood That Talks
From scholars and practitioners, a collaborative collection about the power of the orisha of drumming
The Construction of Whiteness
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity
A critical engagement with the origins, power, and elusiveness of white privilege
Caribbean Masala
Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad
How Indian descendants maintained their culture and grew their influence in the Caribbean
A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years
A female perspective of sharecropping life