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.
Can’t Be Faded
Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game
A collaborative blast of history and inspiration from top-of-the-line musicians
José Ferrer
Success and Survival
The first major biography of the Puerto Rican director and Tony- and Oscar-winning actor
In Faulkner's Shadow
A Memoir
An amusing, honest, and sympathetic account of literary rivalries and family feuds in Faulkner’s hometown
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country
The Benton County Civil Rights Movement
An in-depth oral and hyperlocal history of a rural county and its fight for civil rights
Troubling Masculinities
Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11
A challenge to claims about the popular project of masculine redemption in recent genre films
Taking Flight
Caribbean Women Writing from Abroad
A groundbreaking exploration of the impact of trauma based on gender, sexuality, and race across the Anglophone Caribbean
New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child
Race, Culture, and History
The first scholarly collection to examine Morrison’s most recent work of fiction, God Help the Child
Conversations with Joanna Scott
Collected interviews with a critically acclaimed and award-winning writer who is known for her jolting and illuminating fiction
Comic Art in Museums
A comprehensive history of how comics and comic art gained recognition as art
Clothing and Fashion in Southern History
The first volume to closely study the history of clothing and its relationship to work, power, and identity in the South