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.
Desegregating Dixie
The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992
How a universal church adapted to and resisted powerful calls for transformation
Wong Kar-wai
Interviews
Collected interviews with the Hong Kong auteur covering every feature film he’s directed, from his debut, As Tears Go By, to his 2013 The Grandmaster
Gender and the Superhero Narrative
A timely, exciting look at the controversies and changes in the role of gender in comics
Carter G. Woodson
History, the Black Press, and Public Relations
A new recognition of how the Father of Black History harnessed publicity power
Occasions
Selected Writings
A treasury of hard-to-find stories, essays, tributes, and humor from a literary master
From Madea to Media Mogul
Theorizing Tyler Perry
Essays on the seemingly unstoppable writer, producer, director, actor, and entrepreneur Tyler Perry
Consuming Identity
The Role of Food in Redefining the South
How food serves as a rhetorical catalyst for discussion in a culture that loves to eat, share, and talk
Aaron Henry
The Fire Ever Burning
The memoir of a fearless black leader in the civil rights struggle in Mississippi
The Films of Mira Nair
Diaspora Verite
The first full-length study of the Indian American filmmaker’s extraordinary cinema
Conversations with Neil Gaiman
Collected interviews with the multi-talented and critically acclaimed writer behind the award-winning series, The Sandman andthe novels Neverwhere, Coraline, and American Gods
Books of the Dead
Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature
From The Walking Dead to World War Z, a serious study of the zombie in literature
The Mississippi Gulf Coast
A captivating photographic exploration of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast
French Quarter Manual
An Architectural Guide to New Orleans’s Vieux Carré
A handbook for discovering the architectural gems in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans
Crooked River City
The Musical Life of Nashville's William Pursell
A biography of one of Nashville’s most influential and unique musicians
Exploring Southeastern Archaeology
Cutting-edge scholarship about archaeology in the southeastern United States
Tearing the World Apart
Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century
Essays examining the Nobel laureate’s work in the new millennium
Look Who's Cooking
The Rhetoric of American Home Cooking Traditions in the Twenty-First Century
An exploration of home cooking in the twenty-first century
Full Court Press
Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball
How basketball loosened the grip of segregation and its proponents in the media
Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov
An enlightening volume that brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century’s master prose writers