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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French Quarter Manual

An Architectural Guide to New Orleans’s Vieux Carré

University Press of Mississippi

A handbook for discovering the architectural gems in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans

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Crooked River City

The Musical Life of Nashville's William Pursell

University Press of Mississippi

A biography of one of Nashville’s most influential and unique musicians

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Exploring Southeastern Archaeology

University Press of Mississippi

Cutting-edge scholarship about archaeology in the southeastern United States

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Tearing the World Apart

Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Nina Goss and Eric Hoffman
University Press of Mississippi

Essays examining the Nobel laureate’s work in the new millennium

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Look Who's Cooking

The Rhetoric of American Home Cooking Traditions in the Twenty-First Century

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of home cooking in the twenty-first century

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Full Court Press

Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball

University Press of Mississippi

How basketball loosened the grip of segregation and its proponents in the media

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Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov

Edited by Robert Golla
University Press of Mississippi

An enlightening volume that brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century’s master prose writers

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Conversations with Robert Stone

Edited by William Heath
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the contemporary American author of A Hall of Mirrors, Dog Soldiers, Damascas Gate, and other novels

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Quentin Tarantino

Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction

University Press of Mississippi

The first in-depth study of metafiction in Tarantino’s films

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The African American Sonnet

A Literary History

University Press of Mississippi

A thoughtful survey of striking poems from the Civil War to the present

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The Racial Divide in American Medicine

Black Physicians and the Struggle for Justice in Health Care

University Press of Mississippi

An exposure to the long history of separation, isolation, disparities, and eventual healing in southern health care

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David O. Russell

Interviews

Edited by Holly Willis
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the American filmmaker whose work spans multiple genres and features radically differing aesthetic styles

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Jazz in China

From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression

University Press of Mississippi

A monumental study of the history of jazz in China from its beginnings to today

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Realizing Our Place

Real Southern Women in a Mythologized Land

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of the role myths of southern womanhood play in real women’s lives in the Mississippi Delta

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Chita

A Memory of Last Island

By Lafcadio Hearn; Edited by Delia LaBarre; Introduction by Jefferson Humphries
University Press of Mississippi

A lush, evocative novel about a mysterious girl who survives a devastating hurricane in old Louisiana

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The Yoruba God of Drumming

Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood That Talks

Edited by Amanda Villepastour; Preface by J. D. Y. Peel
University Press of Mississippi

From scholars and practitioners, a collaborative collection about the power of the orisha of drumming

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The Construction of Whiteness

An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity

University Press of Mississippi

A critical engagement with the origins, power, and elusiveness of white privilege

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Caribbean Masala

Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad

University Press of Mississippi

How Indian descendants maintained their culture and grew their influence in the Caribbean

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A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years

University Press of Mississippi

A female perspective of sharecropping life

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Gary Larson and The Far Side

University Press of Mississippi

The first critical assessment of an American icon’s lasting achievement

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Contesting Post-Racialism

Conflicted Churches in the United States and South Africa

University Press of Mississippi

Through the window of congregations, the landscape within churches after racial conflict

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Comics and Adaptation

University Press of Mississippi

How comics are adapted from literary sources as well as brought to the screen

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Builders of a New South

Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865–1914

University Press of Mississippi

An account of the business lives of freedmen, whites, plantation and store owners in a thriving, Deep South commercial center

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John Cassavetes

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the American filmmaker whose contributions as an actor, a writer, a director, a producer, and a cinematographer, at a time of radical changes in cinema history, continue to inspire independent filmmakers to challenge creative restrictions and celebrate actors’ artistic contributions

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Jim Shooter

Conversations

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews spanning the career of an American comic book writer, editor, and businessman who remains among the most important figures in the history of the medium

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Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas

University Press of Mississippi

The dynamic interplay between the work of the Nobel laureate and black writers

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Conversations with James Salter

University Press of Mississippi

Interviews published from 1972 to 2014 with the award-winning author of The Hunters, A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years, and All That Is

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This Woman's Work

The Writing and Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell

University Press of Mississippi

A critical biography of the novelist and champion for mental health issues

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The Know Nothings in Louisiana

University Press of Mississippi

A surprising history of political success for the nativist, anti-Catholic movement

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Alternate Roots

Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Genealogy Media

University Press of Mississippi

How popular media cultivates genealogy but buries its cultural context

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Walking Raddy

The Baby Dolls of New Orleans

Edited by Kim Vaz-Deville; Foreword by Karen Trahan Leathem
University Press of Mississippi

Scholars and artists respond to the modern resurgence of the Baby Doll tradition

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Sweet Spots

In-Between Spaces in New Orleans

University Press of Mississippi

A vibrant exploration of the Crescent City’s distinctive in-between spaces

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Paul Verhoeven

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

This collection of interviews covers every phase of the director’s career, beginning with six newly translated Dutch newspaper interviews dating back to 1968 and ending with a set of previously unpublished interviews dedicated to his most recent work.

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When They Blew the Levee

Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri

University Press of Mississippi

How invisible citizens preserve their community when their town is destroyed

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That Was Entertainment

The Golden Age of the MGM Musical

University Press of Mississippi

The extraordinary story of Arthur Freed and the mighty musical genius of MGM

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Conversations with Gordon Lish

University Press of Mississippi

Interviews published from 1965 to 2015 with one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern American letters

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Consuming Katrina

Public Disaster and Personal Narrative

University Press of Mississippi

An analysis of mismanaged representation and response after disasters

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Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement

University Press of Mississippi

A study of white ministers who risked their pulpits and lives to challenge southern society

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Riding with Death

Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince

University Press of Mississippi

The extraordinary story of sculptors and their incredible creations in Haiti

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Peter Kuper

Conversations

Edited by Kent Worcester
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews that address such varied topics as the nuts and bolts of creating graphic novels, world travels, teaching at Harvard University, Hollywood deal-making, climate change, Spy vs. Spy, New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, Mad magazine, and World War 3 Illustrated

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Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature

From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism

University Press of Mississippi

From didactic nursery rhymes to Coraline and The Hunger Games, an engagement with the vital figure of the mother

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Conversations with W. S. Merwin

University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the former United States Poet Laureate

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Conversations with Edwidge Danticat

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews ranging from the 2000 publication of this award-winning Haitian-American author’s debut work of fiction, Breath, Eyes, Memory, to a personal interview conducted with the volume editor in 2016

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Charley Patton

Voice of the Mississippi Delta

Edited by Robert Sacré; Foreword by William R. Ferris
University Press of Mississippi

Spirited takes on a blues powerhouse and his legacy

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Southern Writers on Writing

Edited by Susan Cushman; Foreword by Alan Lightman
University Press of Mississippi

A collection of essays for writers, readers, and lovers of all things southern

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Sterling Hayden's Wars

University Press of Mississippi

A biography of a master sailor, war hero, and one of the most unusual and troubled stars of the Golden Era of Hollywood

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Faulkner in the Twenty-First Century

University Press of Mississippi

A turn-of-the-century map of where Faulkner studies have traveled and where they are headed

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Invisible Ball of Dreams

Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line

University Press of Mississippi

How novels, plays, films, poems, and children’s literature fill the archival gaps in Black baseball’s story

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Cups Up

How I Organized a Klavern, Plotted a Coup, Survived Prison, Graduated College, Fought Polluters, and Started a Business

University Press of Mississippi

A riveting story of perseverance and redemption that proves life is stranger than fiction

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Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction

Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World

University Press of Mississippi

A tracking of the fascinating connections between adolescence and the concerns of posthumanism

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