Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston is a 1992 book edited by Howard Beeth and Cary D. Wintz and published by Texas A&M University Press.

[5] The commentaries in the introductions of each article address social history, religion, and fraternal organizations, things not discussed in the essays themselves.

[1] Joseph A. Tomberlin of the Mississippi Quarterly wrote that "Linking the sections through the introductions gives the volume greater unity than one might expect in such a collaborative enterprise.

[6] "Richard Allen: The Chequered Career of Houston's First Black State Legislator" by Merline Pitre was originally printed in an academic journal.

[4] Pitre argued that the origins of the black middle class, which she characterized as "articulate, talented, and manipulative", may be explained by studying politicians like Allen.

[11] One primary source article is a diary entry written by Lorenzo J. Greene, a Connecticut man educated at Columbia University,[12] and an associate of Carter G. Woodson,[13] who visited the city during a two-week period in September 1930 where he sold books for the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,[14] in order to generate income for the institution.

"[15] S. Charles Bolton of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock stated that this was a "cheerful account" despite the lack of funds held by Greene and his organization.

[16] Ralph A. Wooster of Lamar University described Greene's article as "a revealing and not always flattering picture" of the leadership of the city's African-American community.

[17] Lorenzo Hirsch of the University of New Orleans wrote that "Certainly Greene's positive impression of black education in Houston contrasts sharply with James M. SoRelle's analysis in a later piece.

John H. Haley of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington stated that it was "a glowing assessment of black citizens of "Heavenly Houston,"[19] using a term employed by people promoting the city.

[7] Alwyn Barr of Texas Tech University described the Greene and Richardson sources as "slightly more optimistic descriptions of business and social leaders and institutions in the period.

[1] SoRelle discusses the discrimination in public schools, accommodations, transportation,[13] and other publicly used facilities;[1] as well as police and Ku Klux Klan-related violence,[13] between World War I and World War II, arguing that conditions were more severe than, in the words of Barr, "Houston's popular image of the period suggested.

[1] F. Kenneth Jensen wrote about 1960 and 1961 sit-ins by Houston students,[1] from Texas Southern University, at lunch counters at a Weingartens shop.

"[17] Taylor praised several of the articles, saying that the ones about Slavery and the post-U.S. Civil War Reconstruction Era "are among the strongest in the book".