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University Press of Mississippi is the largest nonprofit publisher in Mississippi and the state’s only nonprofit press. Founded in 1970 and based in Jackson, UPM is affiliated with Mississippi’s eight public universities. The press publishes more than 90 new books a year—more than 2,200 active titles—and has distributed more than 3.2 million books worldwide in print and digital editions. UPM publishes scholarly and general-interest nonfiction, with particular strength in African American studies, popular culture, comics, film and media, folklore, history, literary studies, music, and the South. The press does not publish fiction or poetry.
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