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.
Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
Essays that explore how a system of patronage and sexism marginalized some remarkable visual artists
Wednesdays in Mississippi
Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964
The story of brave women who met to build bridges between the races and end segregation
The Natchez Indians
A History to 1735
The most complete and detailed examination of a vanished tribe
The Joker
A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime
The first study of Batman’s evil arch-nemesis in comics, on television, and in film
Stanley Kubrick
Interviews
The only comprehensive collection of interviews with the elusive director of Eyes Wide Shut, A Clockwork Orange, and Dr. Strangelove
Seth
Conversations
Interviews with the creator of comics such as It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken, Clyde Fans, and Wimbledon Green
Listen to This
Miles Davis and Bitches Brew
The first close critical treatment of the album that shook jazz with its electric sound and rock-influenced style
Black and Brown Planets
The Politics of Race in Science Fiction
Literary explorations into the radical, hopeful racial futures imagined by science fiction
A Vulgar Art
A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy
The first examination of stand-up comedy through the lens of folklore
A Locker Room of Her Own
Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes
Profiles of superstar women athletes and the obstacles they face
Conversations with Barry Hannah
Thirty years of interviews with one of the most important modern American writers, who is often praised for his unflinching use of language, rich metaphors, and tragically damaged characters
The Music of Multicultural America
Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States
The classic text on American musical expression, updated with four new chapters
SoulStirrers
Black Art and the Neo-Ancestral Impulse
A study of the creative infusion of “African-ness” and social justice into African American art traditions
Kathryn Bigelow
Interviews
Interviews with the Oscar-winning director of The Hurt Locker and many other films
Harmony Korine
Interviews
Interviews with the director of Spring Breakers, Mister Lonely, and Gummo
Creating Jazz Counterpoint
New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues
A full study of Buddy Bolden and Bunk Johnson confirming their roles in the real blues roots of New Orleans jazz
Boys Love Manga and Beyond
History, Culture, and Community in Japan
A critical examination of the "beautiful boy" love comics that enthralled fans in Japan and then worldwide
Post-Soul Satire
Black Identity after Civil Rights
A collection that explores the role of current satire in shaping what it means to be black
The Last Lawyer
The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates
The story of a tireless legal Samaritan and his warfare on the injustice of capital punishment
Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s
A rediscovered treasury of old-time fiddle music with over 300 musical annotations
Talking New Orleans Music
Crescent City Musicians Talk about Their Lives, Their Music, and Their City
Interviews with and beautiful photography of eleven great musicians and their inspiring city
Stable Views
Stories and Voices from the Thoroughbred Racetrack
A moving revelation of the many essential workers and their lives on the backside of thoroughbred racetracks
Getting Off at Elysian Fields
Obituaries from the New Orleans Times-Picayune
A masterful writer’s career-spanning selection of the best remembrances from the Big Easy
American Cyclone
Theodore Roosevelt and His 1900 Whistle-Stop Campaign
An account of the extraordinary twenty-three-state, 480-stop blitz that shaped Roosevelt and the West
To See Them Run
Great Plains Coyote Coursing
An unforgettable and up-close portrait of the men and dogs who hunt coyotes
Uniting Mississippi
Democracy and Leadership in the South
An approach to cultivating the leaders of tomorrow
Bright Fields
The Mastery of Marie Hull
A deluxe and dazzling biography of the great Mississippi artist
Tell about Night Flowers
Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949
A collection of the garden correspondence of a great American writer and gardener
Return to Guntown
Classic Trials of the Outlaws and Rogues of Faulkner Country
New tales of wild bad guys from an accomplished prosecutor of drug lords, kidnappers, con men, and other colorful criminals
A Real American Character
The Life of Walter Brennan
The first biography of the prodigiously hard-working actor who embodied the Western ideal
Toni Morrison
Memory and Meaning
An anthology that examines the many achievements of the Nobel Laureate
Reading Like a Girl
Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature
How novels targeted at teens engage narrator and reader in intimate dramas of friendship, love, identity, and sexuality
Death, Disability, and the Superhero
The Silver Age and Beyond
The first full-length examination of the evolving superhero through the lens of disability studies
Under Surge, Under Siege
The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina
A survivor’s tale of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction and a community’s enduring determination
The Southern Manifesto
Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation
How one document marked the nadir of American racial politics and unleashed a fire that raged across the segregated South
Raised Up Down Yonder
Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama
A classic ethnographic study of rural children, their community, and their school
America's Great Storm
Leading through Hurricane Katrina
A first-person account of the year following the worst natural disaster in American history
Jack Cristil
Voice of the MSU Bulldogs, Revised Edition
The biography of the last of the iconic sports announcers from the Golden Age of Radio
Lines of Scrimmage
A Story of Football, Race, and Redemption
The story of a historic boycott by thirty-one black players on a southern high school football team
Race and the Obama Phenomenon
The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union
Essays that explore how the first black president connects to the past and reimagines national racial and political horizons
Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos
Conceptions of the African American West
A study of representations of Blackness in movies, music, performance art, and popular journalism
Oil and Water
Media Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
How the media handled coverage and shaped understandings of two massive and ongoing catastrophes
Southern Ladies and Suffragists
Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair
A close look at the issues of gender and power at the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans
Black Baseball, Black Business
Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar
An extraordinary history of the Negro Leagues and the economic disruptions of desegregating a sport
Embroidered Stories
Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora
A thorough exploration of the influence of a traditional skill of the Italian diaspora
Gustave Doré
Twelve Comic Strips
For the first time in English, the overlooked sequential narratives by the great illustrator and engraver
A Special Relationship
Britain Comes to Hollywood and Hollywood Comes to Britain
An exploration of the extraordinary cultural exchange between two great filmmaking countries
The Legacy of Eric Williams
Into the Postcolonial Moment
A study of the contributions of a public intellectual and a former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Troutmouth
The Two Careers of Hugh Clegg
The remarkable story of a top man at Hoover’s FBI and at Ole Miss before and during the civil rights era
Once in a Lifetime
Reflections of a Mississippi First Lady
The firsthand account of a governor’s wife who transformed her position from mansion hostess to a more meaningful role in state government