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.
Groove Theory
The Blues Foundation of Funk
The first in-depth intellectual history of funk music and its growth out of the blues tradition
Chaos and Compromise
The Evolution of the Mississippi Budgeting Process
A thorough assay of the painstaking process that delivers a state budget
She Damn Near Ran the Studio
The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman
The first biography of Hollywood’s political matchmaker, kingmaker, and MGM’s movie star maker
The Green Depression
American Ecoliterature in the 1930s and 1940s
A critical analysis of the often-understudied environmentalist literature of the mid-twentieth century
Outside and Inside
Race and Identity in White Jazz Autobiography
A unique, insider perspective on race relations in a great American music
Nichols and May
Interviews
Twenty-seven interviews and profiles ranging over more than five decades that tell Mike Nichols’s and Elaine May’s stories in their own words
Emanuel Celler
Immigration and Civil Rights Champion
The first full-length biography of the long-serving politician whose legislation on voting rights and immigration shaped modern America
A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy
The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises
A book-length study of the unique relationship between the audience and creators who are considered to be trusted fans
New Orleans in Golden Age Postcards
A fascinating tour of historic New Orleans as seen in rare postcards from the early twentieth century
Toxic Masculinity
Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes
An exciting exploration of the impact of hypermasculinity on the creation of the modern superhero