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.
Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media
Penetrating analysis of what it means in literature, film, animation, and advertising to act your age, or not
Michael Allred
Conversations
Collected interviews with the comics creator of Madman and iZombie
Sundays Down South
A Pastor's Stories
A revealing picture of southern character as seen in a minister’s recollections of his congregations
Reading in the Dark
Horror in Children's Literature and Culture
Considerations of horror from Struwwelpeter to Coraline, Shrek, and Monsters, Inc.
Chronicle of a Camera
The Arriflex 35 in North America, 1945–1972
A history of the lightweight workhorse camera that transformed postwar cinematography
Unveiling the Muse
The Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans
The untold story of a powerful Mardi Gras tradition
Conversations with Percival Everett
Interviews with the author of erasure, God’s Country, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Richard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad
An international reassessment of the great writer’s work
Fannye Cook
Mississippi's Pioneering Conservationist
A biography of Mississippi’s trailblazing female conservationist and scientist
Selling Folk Music
An Illustrated History
A colorful account of the history of folk music told through the images that sold the music
The Canadian Alternative
Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels
A broad survey of all the inspirations of comics creation in Canada
Ed Brubaker
Conversations
Collected interviews with one of the most popular, significant figures in art comics since the 1990s
Forging the Past
Seth and the Art of Memory
A critical study of the extraordinary Canadian comics creator
Sowing the Wind
The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890
How a radical constitution blocked racial progress and upended the class system
A Charlie Brown Religion
Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz
The first spiritual biography of a misunderstood believer, the renowned creator of Peanuts
Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans
Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900
The history of the challenges faced by women of all races in the Crescent City
Telling Our Stories
Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
The definitive guide to two state-of-the-art museums—the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, which opened in December 2017, in celebration of the state’s bicentennial
New Orleans Remix
How New Orleans musicians perpetually renew a grand musical tradition from classical to jazz, funk, and beyond
High Cotton
Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta
A paean to the vanishing family cotton farm
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev
Volume I
The first volume of a comprehensive gathering of tales from the Russian Grimm
The Comics of Joe Sacco
Journalism in a Visual World
The first book-length study of the acclaimed artist who brought journalistic reportage to comics
Prefiguring Postblackness
Cultural Memory, Drama, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s
An examination of five visionary stage plays written and performed during the throes of the movement that shook America
Diagnosing Folklore
Perspectives on Disability, Health, and Trauma
How the collision of folk understandings with medical definitions affect disability and stigma
Dancing on the Color Line
African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
A vivid canvas of how the black trickster affected the white canon
George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling
A study of the seminal nineteenth-century fiddle tune collection and its lasting impact
Fragile Grounds
Louisiana's Endangered Cemeteries
A visual treasury of disappearing cemeteries and a call to preserve and document them
Behold the Proverbs of a People
Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics
The preeminent scholar of proverbs addresses the immense cultural impact of proverbs worldwide
A Season of Night
New Orleans Life after Katrina
An account of life post-Katrina and a paean to shaken, but ever-alluring, New Orleans
The Limits of Loyalty
Ordinary People in Civil War Mississippi
A reinterpretation of how ordinary citizens navigated life during wartime
European Empires in the American South
Colonial and Environmental Encounters
Case studies of Spanish, British, and French imperial ambitions
Conversations with Edmund White
Over thirty years of interviews with the award-winning author and scholar known for chronicling gay culture
Godfather of the Music Business
Morris Levy
The incredible story of the cofounder of Birdland, a force in jazz and pop, and one of music’s last great hustlers
Emmett Till
The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
A gripping reexamination of the abduction and murder that galvanized the civil rights movement
Chris Ware
Conversations
Displaying both Ware’s erudition and his quirky self-deprecation, these collected interviews span his career from 1993 to 2015, creating a time-lapse portrait of the artist as he matures.
Prison Power
How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation
How iconic autobiographies found incarceration pivotal to the transition between civil rights and Black Power
Mississippi Writers
An Anthology
An omnibus of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama written by Mississippi authors
The Measure of Our Days
Writings of William F. Winter
Speeches from one of Mississippi’s best known and most progressive public servants
Quincy Jones
His Life in Music
A biography of one of the most influential creators and talents of the twentieth century
Lines Were Drawn
Remembering Court-Ordered Integration at a Mississippi High School
Oral histories gathered by three graduates of a major high school in Jackson, Mississippi
Anywhere But Here
Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond
Recent scholarship that expands the boundaries of Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic