University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Claudette Colbert
She Walked in Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Claudette Colbert's mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industry's most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Though she began her career on the New York stage, she was beloved for her roles in such films as Preston Sturges's The Palm...
Shocking the Conscience
A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-size magazine, became the "bible" for news of the civil rights movement. It was said, only half-jokingly, "If it wasn't in Jet, it didn't happen." Writing for the magazine and its glossy, big sister Ebony, for fifty-three...
Emmett Till
The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first, and as of 2018, only comprehensive account of the 1955 murder, the trial, and the 2004-2007 FBI investigation into the case and Mississippi grand jury decision. By all accounts, it is the definitive...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Conversations with Will D. Campbell is the first collection of interviews with the southern preacher, activist, and author best known for his involvement with the civil rights movement. Ranging from a 1971 discussion about religion and ending with a previously unpublished interview conducted in 2009,...
At Home Inside
A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Ann Petry (1908-1997) was a prominent writer during a period in which few black writers were published with regularity in America. Her novels The Street, Country Place, and The Narrows, along with a collection of short stories and various essays and works of nonfiction, give voice to black experience...
The Last Resort
Taking the Mississippi Cure
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament to white patriarchy, she sees herself failing...
by Matthew Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2004
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), critically acclaimed for his novels, short stories, and essays, was one of the most ambitious and influential African American writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today recognized as a major innovator of American fiction, Chesnutt is an important...
by R. Kim Rushing
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Constructed in 1904, the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman covers 20,000 acres, forty-six square miles, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Originally designed like a private plantation without walls or guard towers, the prison farm has been slowly transformed over the decades into a modern...
Bloody Mary in the Mirror
Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2002
Bloody Mary in the Mirror mixes Sigmund Freud with vampires and The Little Mermaid to see what new light psychoanalysis can bring to folklore techniques and forms. Ever since Freud published his analysis of Jewish jokes in 1905 and his disciple Otto Rank followed with his groundbreaking The Myth of...
The Egg Bowl
Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
From the contentious delay of the first clash in 1901 to the battle in 2009, The Egg Bowl covers the Ole Miss-Mississippi State rivalry in depth. For each game the narrative includes every scoring drive, every player who crossed the goal line, and every final score. More than 150 photos illustrate...
Fourteen on Form
Conversations with Poets
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Poets include:Willis BarnstoneRobert ConquestWendy CopeDouglas DunnAnthony HechtJohn HollanderDonald JusticeX. J. KennedyMaxine KuminFrederick MorganJohn Frederick NimsW. D. SnodgrassDerek WalcottRichard Wilbur When free verse and its many movements seemed to dominate poetry, other writers worked...
Power, Greed, and Hubris
Judicial Bribery in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
From 2003 to 2009 sensational judicial bribery scandals rocked Mississippi's legal system. Famed trial lawyers Paul Minor and Richard (Dickie) Scruggs and renowned judge and former prosecutor Bobby DeLaughter proved to be the nexus of these scandals. Seven attorneys and a former state auditor were...
Teacher
Two Years in the Mississippi Delta
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
When Michael Copperman left Stanford University for the Mississippi Delta in 2002, he imagined he would lift underprivileged children from the narrow horizons of rural poverty. Well-meaning but naïve, the Asian American from the West Coast soon lost his bearings in a world divided between black and...
by Panny Flautt Mayfield
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Live from the Mississippi Delta showcases a rare collection of photographs and stories about musicians from Robert Plant, B. B. King, and ZZ Top to local guitarists playing gigs on the weekend. Panny Flautt Mayfield, a lifelong Delta resident from Tutwiler and an award-winning journalist, documents...