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.
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
Mississippi Black Paper
Shocking testimonials of the brutality committed against those fighting for freedom
Between Generations
Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children's Literature
How children and adults collaborated to create some of the most beloved works in literature
Shifting Interludes
Selected Essays
Covering the span of his forty-year career, a collection of eloquent essays by one of the South’s favorite writers
Seminole Burning
A Story of Racial Vengeance
The true story of mob vengeance on two innocent Native American teenagers in Oklahoma
Resisting Paradise
Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture
How Caribbean artists and activists counteract the apparently irresistible lure of the tourist dollar
DuBose Heyward
A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess
A biography of the proper Charlestonian who wrote of the Gullahs of Catfish Row and inspired a Gershwin masterpiece
Baz Luhrmann
Interviews
Interviews with the director of William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, Australia, and The Great Gatsby
Live from the Mississippi Delta
Spectacular photographs of musicians in the cradle of the blues
Comics Art in China
The definitive book about cartoons, picture books, comics, and animation in mainland China
Conversations with Colum McCann
Collected interviews with the world-renowned fiction author of Fishing the Sloe-Black River, Let the Great World Spin, and TransAtlantic
Sanctuaries of Segregation
The Story of the Jackson Church Visit Campaign
How motivated Christians confronted the hypocrisy that separated races on the Sabbath
Faulkner's Inheritance
Examinations of the many influences on Faulkner’s fiction
Faulkner's Geographies
Essays that study mobility, place, and spatial imagination in the Nobel laureate’s work
Succeeding against Great Odds
Alcorn State University in Its Second Century
The recent history of a thriving Mississippi educational institution
Steelpan Ambassadors
The US Navy Steel Band, 1957–1999
The lost, melodious history of a Cold War drumbeat that harmonized Caribbean steel with the best of America
Sombreros and Motorcycles in a Newer South
The Politics of Aesthetics in South Carolina's Tourism Industry
How South of the Border and Atlantic Beach reflect cultural shifts in a more inclusive South
On Sunset Boulevard
The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
With a new epilogue, the definitive biography of one of the world’s greatest filmmakers
Swamp Rat
The Story of Dixie's Nutria Invasion
The complicated story of the unstoppable expansion of nutria in America’s southern wetlands
Living in Mississippi
The Life and Times of Evans Harrington
The biography of a scholar, an author, an advocate for racial advancement, and a liberal who stayed in Mississippi
East Meets Black
Asian and Black Masculinities in the Post-Civil Rights Era
An interrogation of the harmful, binary stereotypes leveled against Black and Asian men
A Literary History of Mississippi
The first comprehensive history of literature from a state with perhaps the nation’s richest literary lode
The Mississippi Encyclopedia
An A-to-Z compendium of people, places, and events in Mississippi from prehistoric times to today
The House That Sugarcane Built
The Louisiana Burguières
The multigenerational history of one of Louisiana's oldest dynasties and its empire of sugar and land
Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara
Conversations with the author of the acclaimed works Gorilla, My Love; The Salt Eaters; and Those Bones Are Not My Child
Boom's Blues
Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime
A recovery of the first book-length study of the blues and the story behind the extraordinary Dutchman who wrote it under Nazi occupation