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.
Cajun Foodways
A study of the relationship between Cajun food and modern Cajun ethnic identity
Hollywood Unknowns
A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins
The untold tale of bit players, doubles, Central Casting, and extras in American film
Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930–1942
A study of how jazz greats dazzled and enlivened coal towns during the Great Depression
The Rock Cried Out
A restless, young generation collides with a South in transition
Exploring American Folk Music
Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States
The perfect introduction to the many strains of American-made music
Aerosol Kingdom
Subway Painters of New York City
A classic and groundbreaking study of subway and hip-hop art
We End in Joy
Memoirs of a First Daughter
The astonishing, uplifting, and hilarious account of maverick Mississippi governor Kirk Fordice and his family
James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot
A Soldier's Story
A first-person account of the turbulent times of the Oxford riot by a solider who guarded James Meredith when he integrated Ole Miss
Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss
How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature
An illustrated biography of the innovative geniuses who created children’s classics
Conversations with Tim Gautreaux
Collected interviews from 1993 to 2009 with the author of The Missing, The Clearing, Welding with Children, and many other vital works of fiction
A Daring Life
A Biography of Eudora Welty
An accessible, moving, and inspirational biography of a great American writer
Hollywood Enigma
Dana Andrews
A biography of the great noir actor who perfected the male mask of steely impassivity
The Melody Man
Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978
The story of a New York record man whose extraordinary career spanned jazz, blues, rhythm & blues, rock, country, ethnic, and pop music
The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs
A close examination of the emergence of three Los Angeles gangland autobiographies and their literary receptions
D. W. Griffith
Interviews
Interviews with one of the great early film directors, maestro of The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and Hearts of the World
The Past Is Not Dead
Essays from the Southern Quarterly
The very best essays from fifty years of scholarship and thought
The Holiday Yards of Florencio Morales
A richly detailed look at a Mexican American's spectacular yard exhibits commemorating holidays
The Case against Afrocentrism
A shot across the bow of Pan-African claims of a unified African culture
Samuel Fuller
Interviews
Interviews with the director of such films as Shock Corridor, The Naked Kiss, Verboten!, and Pickup on South Street
We Go Pogo
Walt Kelly, Politics, and American Satire
A critical appreciation of the life’s work of a great comic strip artist
Mississippi
The Closed Society
An essential Civil Rights-era account of a witness to the Oxford riots and Mississippi’s nadir
The Snare
The reprinting of a major southern writer’s New Orleans novel that explores a young woman’s temptation to live on the periphery of evil
Conversations with William Maxwell
Conversations with the author of They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, and the American Book Award-winning So Long, See You Tomorrow
Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers
Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War
How artists maintained integrity in the Red Scare’s atmosphere of conformity
The Feminist Poetry Movement
An exploration of the beneficial interplay of the feminist poetry movement and the American women's movement
Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature
Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper
An examination of how six prominent African American writers of the nineteenth century reconfigured a threatening world
Religion in Mississippi
From Catholicism to Evangelicalism, from the seventeenth century to the present day, a study of dissonant religious forces in Mississippi’s turbulent history
Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt
An exploration of a great American writer's abiding concern with the color line
