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.
Can’t Be Faded
Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game
A collaborative blast of history and inspiration from top-of-the-line musicians
José Ferrer
Success and Survival
The first major biography of the Puerto Rican director and Tony- and Oscar-winning actor
In Faulkner's Shadow
A Memoir
An amusing, honest, and sympathetic account of literary rivalries and family feuds in Faulkner’s hometown
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country
The Benton County Civil Rights Movement
An in-depth oral and hyperlocal history of a rural county and its fight for civil rights
Troubling Masculinities
Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11
A challenge to claims about the popular project of masculine redemption in recent genre films
Taking Flight
Caribbean Women Writing from Abroad
A groundbreaking exploration of the impact of trauma based on gender, sexuality, and race across the Anglophone Caribbean
New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child
Race, Culture, and History
The first scholarly collection to examine Morrison’s most recent work of fiction, God Help the Child
Conversations with Joanna Scott
Collected interviews with a critically acclaimed and award-winning writer who is known for her jolting and illuminating fiction
Comic Art in Museums
A comprehensive history of how comics and comic art gained recognition as art
Clothing and Fashion in Southern History
The first volume to closely study the history of clothing and its relationship to work, power, and identity in the South
A Sojourn in Paradise
Jack Robinson in 1950s New Orleans
A celebration of the New Orleans life and early career of famed fashion photographer Jack Robinson.
Table Lands
Food in Children's Literature
An exploration of the symbolic role food plays in children’s literature
Michael Haneke
Interviews
Collected interviews with the director of The Seventh Continent, Funny Games,Amour,and his most recent feature, Happy End
Graphic Indigeneity
Comics in the Americas and Australasia
How comics in the Americas and Oceania have misconstrued, transformed, and reconstructed Indigenous stories
Cooperatives in New Orleans
Collective Action and Urban Development
A potent history of a most vital contributor to urban growth in New Orleans
Conversations with Graham Swift
Collected interviews with the author of the Booker Prize–winning novel Last Orders and Waterland
Children's Books on the Big Screen
A critical volume dedicated to children’s film adaptation
Vintage Postcards from the African World
In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play
An extraordinary view of the bounty of Africa and its diaspora
Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet
Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi
An intimate portrait that shifts the narrative of what gay life looks like in the rural South
Stone Motel
Memoirs of a Cajun Boy
Dispatches from the childhood of a Louisiana son raised in a roadside motel.