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.
Superheroes Beyond
A dynamic collection acknowledging a powerful diversity of superheroes outside of expected boundaries
Out of the Blue
Life on the Road with Muddy Waters
A behind-the-scenes account from Muddy Waters’s road manager and right-hand man during the bluesman’s last great years
Jazz in the Hill
Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood
The lively history of a cherished music scene and its ongoing social significance
BOOM! SPLAT!
Comics and Violence
Enlightening essays on the enduring and compelling functions of violence in comics
Albert Brooks
Interviews
Fourteen profiles of and conversations with the well-known American actor, director, and screenwriter
Jean Peters
Hollywood's Mystery Girl
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
King of the Gunrunners
How a Philadelphia Fruit Importer Inspired a Revolution and Provoked the Spanish-American War
How a boisterous fruit importer aided a revolution that triggered a war
Peep Light
Stories of a Mississippi River Boat Captain
An illuminating record of fifty years as a pilot on the mighty Mississippi River
Outliving the White Lie
A Southerner's Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey
An unflinching chronicle of one Mississippian’s reckoning with history
Monsters and Saints
LatIndigenous Landscapes and Spectral Storytelling
Writings and artwork that examine the concept of home through the ghost stories of Latinx and Indigenous cultures
Inventing Benjy
William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap
The newly translated analysis of one of the most innovative protagonists ever created in American modernism
Conversations with Sarah Schulman
Thirty years of interviews spanning the career of the novelist, screenwriter, and gay activist whose works include After Delores and Maggie Terry
Black Hibiscus
African Americans and the Florida Imaginary
An exploration of the significant literary and cultural contributions from African Americans in the Sunshine State
Bayou Harvest
Subsistence Practice in Coastal Louisiana
An in-depth study of the power and pride of cooking, hunting, harvesting, foraging, and thriving in coastal Louisiana
The Delta in the Rearview Mirror
The Life and Death of Mississippi's First Winery
A firsthand account of the splendid rise and frightening fall of Mississippi’s first winery
Tending to the Past
Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom
How Black writers have circumvented stereotypes to positively portray Black survival, creativity, and autonomy to young readers
Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II
A Legacy of African American Athletic Activism
New perspectives on the ways Black athletes wield their sports platform to address inequalities
Sounding Our Way Home
Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity
A generation-spanning history of music making and the sense of belonging it engenders
See Justice Done
The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition
An analysis of the fraught relations between Black writing and the law
Dorothy Arzner
Interviews
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
Conversations with Orhan Pamuk
Thirty interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist best known for My Name Is Red, Snow, and The Museum of Innocence
Comics and Modernism
History, Form, and Culture
The first collection to engage with the fascinating overlap between comics and modernism
A Trumpet around the Corner
The Story of New Orleans Jazz
From the first raucous chorus to the aftermath of Katrina, the saga of the Big Easy’s signature music
Poor Gal
The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane
The telling journey of a centuries-old tune and what it says about race, class, and American folk music
Learning Jazz
Jazz Education, History, and Public Pedagogy
A call for collaboration and understanding in how we learn jazz in diverse settings
Intersecting Aesthetics
Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness
How twentieth-century Black writers and filmmakers struggled to create authentic adaptations that reflected Black experiences
From Biblical Book to Musical Megahit
William B. Bradbury's Esther, the Beautiful Queen
The compelling history of an acclaimed and enduring musical piece
Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard
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
Civic Buildings after the Spanish-American War
How Beaux-Arts edifices reveal the United States’ imperialistic vision in the Caribbean