Earl Black (born 1942) is a retired professor of Political Science at Rice University who specialized in studies of the politics of the Southern United States.[1]
Earl Black earned a B.A. at the University of Texas at Austin in 1964 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968. He has studied the relationship between politics and race or ethnicity in the South.
He and his twin brother, Merle Black, who was a professor of political science at Emory University, have written several books on the politics of the South and the United States as a whole. Their last book together is Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics (2008).
Works
- Politics and Society in the South, Harvard University Press, paperback 1989. ISBN 9780674689596
- The Vital South: How Presidents are Elected, 1992 (with Merle Black)
- The Rise of Southern Republicans, Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-674-00728-X
- Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics, 2008
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