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.

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Superheroes Beyond

University Press of Mississippi

A dynamic collection acknowledging a powerful diversity of superheroes outside of expected boundaries

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Out of the Blue

Life on the Road with Muddy Waters

By Brian Bisesi; Foreword by Bob Margolin
University Press of Mississippi

A behind-the-scenes account from Muddy Waters’s road manager and right-hand man during the bluesman’s last great years

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Jazz in the Hill

Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood

University Press of Mississippi

The lively history of a cherished music scene and its ongoing social significance

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BOOM! SPLAT!

Comics and Violence

University Press of Mississippi

Enlightening essays on the enduring and compelling functions of violence in comics

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Albert Brooks

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Fourteen profiles of and conversations with the well-known American actor, director, and screenwriter

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Jean Peters

Hollywood's Mystery Girl

University Press of Mississippi

The first definitive volume in more than fifty years on the extraordinary star of Pickup on South Street, Three Coins in the Fountain, and Niagara

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King of the Gunrunners

How a Philadelphia Fruit Importer Inspired a Revolution and Provoked the Spanish-American War

University Press of Mississippi

How a boisterous fruit importer aided a revolution that triggered a war

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Peep Light

Stories of a Mississippi River Boat Captain

University Press of Mississippi

An illuminating record of fifty years as a pilot on the mighty Mississippi River

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Outliving the White Lie

A Southerner's Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey

University Press of Mississippi

An unflinching chronicle of one Mississippian’s reckoning with history

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Monsters and Saints

LatIndigenous Landscapes and Spectral Storytelling

University Press of Mississippi

Writings and artwork that examine the concept of home through the ghost stories of Latinx and Indigenous cultures

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Inventing Benjy

William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap

By Frédérique Spill; Translated by Arby Gharibian; Foreword by Taylor Hagood
University Press of Mississippi

The newly translated analysis of one of the most innovative protagonists ever created in American modernism

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Conversations with Sarah Schulman

Edited by Will Brantley
University Press of Mississippi

Thirty years of interviews spanning the career of the novelist, screenwriter, and gay activist whose works include After Delores and Maggie Terry

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Black Hibiscus

African Americans and the Florida Imaginary

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of the significant literary and cultural contributions from African Americans in the Sunshine State

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Bayou Harvest

Subsistence Practice in Coastal Louisiana

University Press of Mississippi

An in-depth study of the power and pride of cooking, hunting, harvesting, foraging, and thriving in coastal Louisiana

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The Delta in the Rearview Mirror

The Life and Death of Mississippi's First Winery

University Press of Mississippi

A firsthand account of the splendid rise and frightening fall of Mississippi’s first winery

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Tending to the Past

Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom

University Press of Mississippi

How Black writers have circumvented stereotypes to positively portray Black survival, creativity, and autonomy to young readers

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Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II

A Legacy of African American Athletic Activism

University Press of Mississippi

New perspectives on the ways Black athletes wield their sports platform to address inequalities

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Sounding Our Way Home

Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity

University Press of Mississippi

A generation-spanning history of music making and the sense of belonging it engenders

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See Justice Done

The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition

University Press of Mississippi

An analysis of the fraught relations between Black writing and the law

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Dorothy Arzner

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Insights into the career of one of Golden Age Hollywood’s first and most prolific female directors who was best known for The Bride Wore Red

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Conversations with Orhan Pamuk

University Press of Mississippi

Thirty interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist best known for My Name Is Red, Snow, and The Museum of Innocence

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Comics and Modernism

History, Form, and Culture

University Press of Mississippi

The first collection to engage with the fascinating overlap between comics and modernism

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A Trumpet around the Corner

The Story of New Orleans Jazz

University Press of Mississippi

From the first raucous chorus to the aftermath of Katrina, the saga of the Big Easy’s signature music

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Vibe

The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South

University Press of Mississippi

A journey into the inner lives of Black southerners through the reverberations of trap music

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Poor Gal

The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane

University Press of Mississippi

The telling journey of a centuries-old tune and what it says about race, class, and American folk music

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Learning Jazz

Jazz Education, History, and Public Pedagogy

University Press of Mississippi

A call for collaboration and understanding in how we learn jazz in diverse settings

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Intersecting Aesthetics

Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness

University Press of Mississippi

How twentieth-century Black writers and filmmakers struggled to create authentic adaptations that reflected Black experiences

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From Biblical Book to Musical Megahit

William B. Bradbury's Esther, the Beautiful Queen

University Press of Mississippi

The compelling history of an acclaimed and enduring musical piece

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Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard

Edited by Bob Blaisdell
University Press of Mississippi

Twenty-two interviews with the Norwegian author and winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature who is best known for his two autobiographical series My Struggle and the Seasons quartet

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Civic Buildings after the Spanish-American War

University Press of Mississippi

How Beaux-Arts edifices reveal the United States’ imperialistic vision in the Caribbean

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