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.
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).
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