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.
What She Go Do
Women in Afro-Trinidadian Music
How women have expanded the creative reach of calypso, soca, and steelband music
Labor Pains
New Deal Fictions of Race, Work, and Sex in the South
A fresh consideration of the impact of black radicalism on black characters in southern modernism
Ernest J. Gaines
Conversations
Collected interviews with the acclaimed author of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Lesson Before Dying
World War I and Southern Modernism
An exploration of the impact of the Great War on southern writing
Implied Nowhere
Absence in Folklore Studies
A groundbreaking inquiry into what is missing in folklore and folklore studies
Life Between the Levees
America’s Riverboat Pilots
An incomparable oral history of riverboat pilots on the Mississippi River, its tributaries, and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterways
A Legal History of Mississippi
Race, Class, and the Struggle for Opportunity
A direct legal study of the state stretching from the origins of Mississippi charters to our modern mandates
Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children's and Adolescent Literature
A revelation of the powerful alternative to sexism offered by children’s literature
Eleanor Cameron
Dimensions of Amazement
A biography of the beloved novelist, pioneering critic, and champion of children’s literature
Conversations with Joan Didion
Collected interviews with the iconic American author spanning decades, continents, and genres
Louisiana Poets
A Literary Guide
An inspiring survey and assessment of forty poets from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Dick Waterman
A Life in Blues
A biography of the renowned manager of Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and Buddy Guy, who worked with a host of other iconic blues artists
Conversations with Colson Whitehead
Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Intuitionist
Time of My Life
A Jazz Journey from London to New Orleans
An insider’s riff on his jazz journey across oceans to the city that invented the music
Analysis of Jazz
A Comprehensive Approach
A sweeping study of the nature of jazz
The Comics of Rutu Modan
War, Love, and Secrets
The first in-depth study of acclaimed work by a pioneer of Israeli comics
Hold On with a Bulldog Grip
A Short Study of Ulysses S. Grant
A concise chronicle of one of the most accomplished figures in American history
Photographs
In hardback again for the first time in thirty years, the definitive book of photographs by the Pulitzer Prize winner, including a new foreword by Natasha Trethewey and sixteen new photographs
Cham
The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839–1862
The first modern study of the inexhaustibly humorous, masterful French creator