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.
Robert Williams
Conversations
Interviews with the founder of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine and coproducer of ZAP Comix who is known for his underground comix cartoons and oil paintings
M. Night Shyamalan
Interviews
Two decades of interviews with the visionary filmmaker of such successful films as The Sixth Sense, Signs, and Unbreakable
Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana
One writer’s odyssey through Louisiana folklore and history as he searches for the true meaning of home
A Seat at the Table
Black Women Public Intellectuals in US History and Culture
A sounding of a profound, lasting imprint on intellectual history
Love Letter from Pig
My Brother's Story of Freedom Summer
An inspiring, deeply personal story about a tumultuous period in civil rights history
This Light of Ours
Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement
An astonishing visual record taken by photographers directly engaged in the struggle
The Poacher's Nightmare
Stories of an Undercover Game Warden
The thrilling memoir of a covert wildlife agent
The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker
A riveting true story of a Texas murder that captivated a nation and the evangelical voices who fought for Karla Faye Tucker’s clemency
Terror and Truth
Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement
The first critical examination of Mississippi’s civil rights tourism industry
Exploring the Land of Ooo
An Unofficial Overview and Production History of Cartoon Network's Adventure Time
An extremely addictive, high-intensity, MATHEMATICAL! look at the world of a beloved animated television series
Djeha, the North African Trickster
The first annotated English translation of sixty ancient folktales featuring an icon of the Maghreb
Cloverfield
Creatures and Catastrophes in Post-9/11 Cinema
The first comprehensive study of a franchise that revived giant creature attacks and plumbed the traumatized human psyche
Activism in the Name of God
Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
An extensive collection that highlights the contributions of often-forgotten Black women in the public sphere
Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1
1932-1955
A fascinating investigation into the life and art of one of America’s greatest poets
Path to Grace
Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement
Remarkable narratives from the heretofore unsung champions of the civil rights movement
Starmaker
David O. Selznick and the Production of Stars in the Hollywood Studio System
A thorough study of the legendary producer and his creative business savvy
Pieces of Freedom
The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warrick Fuller
A visual narrative of the Black emancipation experience, voiced through the sculptures of two nineteenth-century African American female artists
Conversations with Jimmy Carter
Interviews that capture the complexities and contradictions that have defined Carter’s life as a national public figure for the last fifty years—and that have helped to both reflect and shape the highest aspirations of the American experiment
Matria Redux
Caribbean Women Novelize the Past
A feminist exploration of postcolonial Caribbean literature, analyzed within the framework of an imagined maternal space and time
Making Music
The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County
An intimate look at the role of the banjo in a long-standing, joyful musical tradition vital to the Appalachian region
In the Shadows of the Big House
Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana
How plantation museums reveal contemporary struggles in the public history of slavery
Imperiled Whiteness
How Hollywood and Media Make Race in "Postracial" America
How media have bolstered and encouraged the figment of a threatened white populace
Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years
No Deed but Memory
An overdue engagement with the latter three decades of an abundant career
Feel My Big Guitar
Prince and the Sound He Helped Create
A collection of dynamic perspectives on a compelling musical genius and enigma
Faulkner's Families
A new and fascinating volume that explores the theme of family in the works by the great Mississippi writer
Christian Petzold
Interviews
A rich resource for readers interested in the renowned German filmmaker’s work or contemporary German cinema but also those looking for theoretically challenging and sophisticated commentary offered by one of global art cinema’s leading figures
Part of the Magic
A Collection of Disney-Inspired Brushes with Greatness
A behind-the-scenes history of Disney’s greatest creative legends as told by an industry insider
Wait Five Minutes
Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century
A folkloristic engagement with the weather and its pervasiveness in our lives
The Velveteen Rabbit at 100
A new series of engaging and fascinating essays on the beloved children’s classic
Season to Taste
Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Food Memoirs
An exciting and detailed study of the explosion of women’s food writing in the early 2000s
Hidden Harmonies
Women and Music in Popular Entertainment
An exploration of the untold stories of lesser-known female musicians
Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 2
Critical Approaches
The second installment of an essential anthology on children’s literature of the Caribbean and its diaspora
Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 1
History, Pedagogy, and Publishing
The first installment of an essential anthology on children’s literature of the Caribbean and its diaspora
A Thousand Places Left Behind
One Soldier’s Account of Jungle Warfare in WWII Burma
A veteran’s harrowing remembrance of jungle warfare and intelligence operations
To Dance, to Live
A Biography of Thalia Mara
A moving biography of a dancer, teacher, and arts patron recognized internationally for her efforts in dance education and for bringing world-class ballet to Mississippi
The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education
Elizabeth and Waties Waring's Campaign
An illuminating look at the little-known rhetorical campaign that helped advance the cause of school desegregation
Race and the Animated Bodyscape
Constructing and Ascribing a Racialized Asian Identity in Avatar and Korra
How race is constructed and ascribed in the fantasy world of one popular US franchise
Queer Oz
L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender
The first scholarly monograph to focus on L. Frank Baum’s portrayals of queerness and sexuality in his more than seventy works of fiction