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.
Black Bodies in the River
Searching for Freedom Summer
A rhetorical interrogation of the pervasive claim that unidentified Black bodies were discovered during investigations into one of Freedom Summer’s most widely known events
Making Tracks
A Record Producer’s Southern Roots Music Journey
A firsthand remembrance of the artists, engineers, crews, and settings that make roots music magical
The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books
A foundational look at the way children’s books shaped views of the LGBTQ+ world
The South Strikes Back
The seminal history of the formation and tactics of the Citizens’ Council that battled integration and voting rights
The Eye That Is Language
A Transatlantic View of Eudora Welty
An enlightening collection of essays by a renowned European scholar on the transatlantic significance of Eudora Welty
Songs of Slavery and Emancipation
A critical study that highlights a new perspective of the long-buried and forgotten songs of resistance
Open at the Close
Literary Essays on Harry Potter
The first collection of essays focused exclusively on examining the Harry Potter novels as literature
Louis Malle
Interviews
Collected interviews with the internationally acclaimed director, screenwriter, and producer known for the emotional realism and stylistic simplicity of such films as Le Monde du silence and Goodbye, Children
Following the Drums
African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee
A recovery and celebration of a once-mighty, now-vanished Tennessee musical legacy
Conversations with Diane di Prima
Collected interviews with the feminist Beat poet and cofounder of the Poets Press, known for her blended use of political and spiritual subject matter
Love, Daddy
Letters from My Father
A poignant collection of letters from Willie Morris accompanied by photographs by his son, David Rae Morris
Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen
A coming-of-age story of a young woman navigating a turbulent and changing South
Voices of Black Folk
The Sermons of Reverend A. W. Nix
An in-depth study of the influence and conflicting interpretations of Black vocal heritage in the 1920s
The Unexceptional Case of Haiti
Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society
A deeply researched upending of the trope of Haiti as the Black Republic
Laugh Lines
Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry
An innovative redress of the long critical inattention to the power of humor in recent verse
Jeff Lemire
Conversations
Collected interviews with the award-winning Canadian comic writer and artist whose credits include Marvel’s Extraordinary X-Men and DC’s Justice League Dark
Hearing Brazil
Music and Histories in Minas Gerais
A critical exploration of key musical legacies in the Brazilian state
Equipping Space Cadets
Primary Science Fiction for Young Children
A scholarly exploration of how children’s books embrace and wrestle with the science fiction genre
The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck
The Gentleman Preferred Blondes
The first book to explore the impact the innovative studio executive had on American movie musicals
Asian-Cajun Fusion
Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou
A lushly illustrated and complete history of Louisiana’s shrimping industry
The Green Mister Rogers
Environmentalism in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
An in-depth exploration of the environmentalism in the beloved children’s television program
The Geographies of African American Short Fiction
A long-overdue history of short stories, place, and the significance of setting on racial representation
The Films of Delmer Daves
Visions of Progress in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
A scholarly exploration of a forgotten director’s body of work
The Edward Tales
A focused character study of a recurring figure in the fiction of one of Mississippi’s greatest writers
The Edward Tales
A focused character study of a recurring figure in the fiction of one of Mississippi’s greatest writers
Fear, Hate, and Victimhood
How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook
A blistering critique of the rhetoric of two candidates and how President Trump succeeded
Exposing Mississippi
Eudora Welty's Photographic Reflections
The first book-length work to look critically at Eudora Welty’s work as a photographer
Motherland, Fatherland, Whateverland
Searching for Home
From the former Dutch East Indies to the Mississippi Delta, the touching, true story of a man’s search for home
Su Friedrich
Interviews
A collection of interviews with the acclaimed avant-garde filmmaker whose innovations of narrative, documentary, and experimental style explore the roles of gender, family, and sexuality in contemporary America
Little Women at 150
A new exploration of the lasting affection and appreciation of the beloved children’s novel
Ghost Channels
Paranormal Reality Television and the Haunting of Twenty-First-Century America
The first scholarly study of the frighteningly popular paranormal reality television genre
Concise Dictionary of Comics
A superb compendium of definitions for over one thousand terms related to comics studies, collecting, and publishing
Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes
Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels
A wrestling with whiteness and white supremacy throughout the history of comics creation
Southern Gardening All Year Long
A common-sense guide to the dynamic landscapes of Mississippi and southeastern gardening
The School Story
Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism
Through the lens of literature and film for and about students, a critique of what neoliberalism unleashed in schools
The Real Ambassadors
Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation
The full story of an incredible collaboration among the Brubecks and Armstrong to create jazz’s most amazing musical
The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture
A Feminist Critique
An exploration of the troublingly unfeminist roots of goddess characters in popular culture
Stuart Gordon
Interviews
The first collection of interviews with the horror film icon known for directing Re-Animator, From Beyond, and Dolls
From Wallflowers to Bulletproof Families
The Power of Disability in Young Adult Narratives
How young adult stories interrogate and enrich our understandings of what disability means
For No Reason at All
The Changing Narrative of the First World War in American Film
How Hollywood adopted an antiwar attitude in response to the horrors of World War I