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.
Sacred and Profane
Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art
A sustained critical assessment of southern folk art and self-taught art and artists
Race, Reform, and Rebellion
The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006, Third Edition
An update of one of the indispensable political and social histories of African Americans since World War II
Conversations with Larry Brown
Interviews with the author of Dirty Work, Father and Son, Joe, and Big Bad Love
Clarence John Laughlin
Prophet without Honor
A biography of a New Orleans photographer of worldwide acclaim
Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902
A revisionary study of Mississippi’s late nineteenth-century image as a one-party state of Democrats
Lotus Among the Magnolias
The Mississippi Chinese
A study showing how the Mississippi Chinese expanded their social and economic potential and moved away from restrictive beginnings
The University of Mississippi School of Law
A Sesquicentennial History
The story of one of the state’s formative institutions
Ed McGowin, Name Change
One Artist, Twelve Personas, Thirty-five Years
An overview of creations from the many identities of one artist
Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?
Firsthand accounts of how life unfolded for the youth of the Age of Aquarius
Dunlap
The first full-length book heralding this renowned artist’s achievements
Ghost Hunters of the South
From across Dixie, profiles of irrepressible investigators of the paranormal
Andrei Tarkovsky
Interviews
A collection of interviews with the Russian filmmaker who directed Andrei Roublev, Solaris, and The Mirror
Sam Myers
The Blues Is My Story
A house-rocking blues life story of the late Mississippi-born front man of Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets
Odd-Egg Editor
Remembering the sting of male discrimination she repeatedly endured during her career as a newspaper-woman, the author wistfully recalls the hurt of being overlooked, snubbed, and ribbed by her male colleagues
Coming to Colorado
A Young Immigrant's Journey to Become an American Flyer
The inspiring sequel to German Boy: A Refugee’s Story
20 over 40
Stories about the unique perils and tensions of middle age
The Coen Brothers
Interviews
Collected interviews with the quirky and distinctive writer/director team of such films as Raising Arizona, Intolerable Cruelty, and Barton Fink
Tim Hector
A Caribbean Radical's Story
The first biography of the influential Antiguan journalist and follower of C. L. R. James
The New Blue Music
Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950–1999
A study that finds African influences of melody, harmony, rhythm, and form in the top 25 songs from each decade of R&B
Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book
Unmasking the Myth of Modernity
The first full-length critical study of the genius who created Duckburg and Uncle Scrooge
Shelby Foote
A Writer's Life
A biography that plumbs the ambiguous life of the gentlemanly novelist and historian
Richard Wright's Travel Writings
New Reflections
From multinational perspectives, a study of Wright’s innovative travel literature and its politics of postcolonialism
Reading Faulkner
Collected Stories
For readers and critics, a guide to the Nobel Laureate’s short stories
Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Freedom and Complexity
Essays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa’s greatest writers
La Salle and His Legacy
Frenchmen and Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley
In this collection of essays that marked the tricentennial of La Salle’s expedition, thirteen scholars assess his legacy and the significance of French colonialism in the Southeast
Faulkner and Religion
The papers published here conclude that the key to religious meaning in Faulkner may be that his texts focus not so much on God but on a human aspiration of the divine
Booker T. Washington in Perspective
Essays of Louis R. Harlan
An important companion volume to Louis R. Harlan’s prize-winning biography of Booker T. Washington that collects Harlan’s essays on the life and career of the celebrated black leader
Illustrations of Epic and Voyage
An intriguing sample of Walter Anderson’s visions inspired by literature’s great stories
Mouse Tracks
The Story of Walt Disney Records
An appreciative assessment of a wondrous recording studio and all fifty years of its magical output
Gettysburg
Sentinels of Stone
Photographs and text that capture the battles, landscapes, history, and memories of the Civil War
Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865
A revealing juxtaposition of the literatures of Manifest Destiny and a dream deferred
Woody Allen
Interviews
Interviews with the well-known director of Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Bullets Over Broadway, and the Oscar-winning Annie Hall
The Reverend
An intimate portrait of a fiery spiritual leader and his African American congregations
What Gets Into Us
Interconnected stories that reveal the fictional town of Fayton, North Carolina